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"In my end is my beginning": the fin-negans motif in George MacDonald's At the Back of the North Wind.(essay)(Critical essay)

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From: Mythlore
Date: 20060101
Author:Persyn, Catherine

 
As waters haste unto their sea, 
And earth unto its earth, 
So let my heart return to thee, 
From whom it had its birth. 
The Vicar's Daughter 
 
I died a mineral and became a plant. 
I died a plant and rose an animal. 
I died an animal and I was man. 
Why should I fear? When was I less by dying? 
Yet once more I shall die as man, to soar 
With the blessed angels; but even from angelhood 
I must pass on. All except God perishes. 
When I have sacrificed my angel soul, 
I shall become that which no mind ever conceived. 
O, let me not exist! for Non-Existence proclaims, 
'To Him we shall ...

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