Alice asks Why is there more craving than
loving ? Gertrude takes all day to answer
You see Alice life is a tough business
it is not easy to dance a clean dream
Think for example how hard it is to
hold our head up
in wet windy weather
Alice recalls a willow in a wide
place on the bank of a fast flowing stream
You cannot burn water it means cleanness
A climate is not an ordeal unless
we make it so just as a broken heart can-
not be mended with wax The secret dear
Alice is to make no more mistakes than
yesterday Yes
love is its own reward
John Lyons