Uncomforted

"I don't want to be anyone but myself, even if I go uncomforted by diamonds all my life," declared Anne.

Storms of the winter, and deepening snows, when will you end? I said, for the soul within me was numb with woes, and my heart uncomforted.

Shall you never go with any one; shall you and I, so near to each other, with so much to keep us together, go always uncomforted.

And the two women mourned, uncomforted.

I hope that my philosopher may yet walk on the hills with me, if only for the sake of the love I bear the green valleys; and when I see the great stream passing silently from translucent pool to pool, overhung by rowans and sun-warmed rocks, I shall be glad to think that I have walked on the heights where it was gathered and drawn, and that I have heard it talk hoarsely to itself, cold and uncomforted, among the bleak and dripping stones.