CHAPTER III
THE HYMN OF CREATION
The second chapter in Miss Miller's work is entitled, "Gloire à Dieu. Poème onirique."
When twenty years of age, Miss Miller took a long journey through Europe. We leave the description of it to her:
"After a long and rough journey from New York to Stockholm, from there to Petersburg and Odessa, I found it a true pleasure1 to leave the world of inhabited cities—and to enter the world of waves, sky and silence—I stayed hours long on deck to dream, stretched out in a reclining chair. The histories, legends and myths of the different countries which I saw in the distance, came back to me indistinctly blended together in a sort of luminous mist, in which things lost their reality, while the dreams and thoughts alone took on somewhat the appearance of reality. At first, I even avoided all company and kept to myself, lost wholly in my dreams, where all that I knew of great, beautiful and good came back into my consciousness with new strength and new life. I also employed a great part of my time writing to my distant friends, reading and sketching out short poems about the regions visited. Some of these poems were of a very serious character."
It may seem superfluous, perhaps, to enter intimately into all these details. If we recall, however, the remark made above,—that when people let their unconscious speak, they always tell us the most important things of
