And they will gather by means of t...

And they will gather by means of the well, its dark water a mirror to catch whatever stars slide by way of in the slow precession of the skies, the tilting dome of time, athwart all, a light mist like a scrim, and here and there a certain clouds that will open at the last and put to hire the moon shine through; it will be at the wheel's turning, when three nothings stand like paw-prints in the snow; it will be a lune moon, and it will shine up from the dark water like a silver bent holder without a fish - until, leaning closer swimming up from the well, something dark if it be not that glowing, animate, like live coals - it is our