▼薔薇と騎士 『秘密の薔薇』には、「Out of the Rose(薔薇のために)」という騎士の物語が散文で書かれています。変わった物語で、輝きが刻々と濃い紫に変化していくルビー製の小さな薔薇を兜に付けた一人の騎士が、自分が死ぬ大義を求めてさまよっています。そして、今にも沈み行く太陽に向かって、お祈りをします。
After gazing a while towards the sun, he let the reins fall upon the neck of his horse, and, stretching out both arms towards the west, he said, 'O Divine Rose of Intellectual Flame, let the gates of thy peace be opened to me at last!'
While the Knight of Palestine was telling us these things we seemed to see in a vision a crimson Rose spreading itself about him, so that he seemed to speak out of its heart, and the air was filled with fragrance.