de profundis-第13章
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and that I shall see the wind stir into restless beauty the swaying
gold of the one; and make the other toss the pale purple of its
plumes; so that all the air shall be Arabia for me。 Linnaeus fell
on his knees and wept for joy when he saw for the first time the
long heath of some English upland made yellow with the tawny
aromatic brooms of the common furze; and I know that for me; to
whom flowers are part of desire; there are tears waiting in the
petals of some rose。 It has always been so with me from my
boyhood。 There is not a single colour hidden away in the chalice
of a flower; or the curve of a shell; to which; by some subtle
sympathy with the very soul of things; my nature does not answer。
Like Gautier; I have always been one of those 'pour qui le monde
visible existe。'
Still; I am conscious now that behind all this beauty; satisfying
though it may be; there is some spirit hidden of which the painted
forms and shapes are but modes of manifestation; and it is with
this spirit that I desire to become in harmony。 I have grown tired
of the articulate utterances of men and things。 The Mystical in
Art; the Mystical in Life; the Mystical in Nature this is what I am
looking for。 It is absolutely necessary for me to find it
somewhere。
All trials are trials for one's life; just as all sentences are
sentences of death; and three times have I been tried。 The first
time I left the box to be arrested; the second time to be led back
to the house of detention; the third time to pass into a prison for
two years。 Society; as we have constituted it; will have no place
for me; has none to offer; but Nature; whose sweet rains fall on
unjust and just alike; will have clefts in the rocks where I may
hide; and secret valleys in whose silence I may weep undisturbed。
She will hang the night with stars so that I may walk abroad in the
darkness without stumbling; and send the wind over my footprints so
that none may track me to my hurt: she will cleanse me in great
waters; and with bitter herbs make me whole。
End