The Prophet(先知)
Kahlil Gibran
Chapter 1The Coming of the Ship
ALMUSTAFA, the chosen and the beloved, who was a dawn unto his
own day, had waited twelve years in the city of Orphalese for his
ship that was to return and bear him back to the isle of his
birth.
And in the twelfth year, on the seventh day of Ielool, the month
of reaping, he climbed the hill without the city walls and looked
seaward; and he beheld his ship coming with the mist.
Then the gates of his heart were flung open, and his joy flew
far over the sea. And he closed his eyes and prayed in the silences
of his soul.
But as he descended the hill, a sadness came upon him, and he
thought in his heart:
How shall I go in peace and without sorrow? Nay, not without a
wound in the spirit shall I leave this city.
Long were the days of pain I have spent within its…