Then came the second, and of him, too, that one asked, "What of your
fire?"
And he said, "I found men shivering, with nought to warm them, and I
gave my fire, that they might live, and not die."
And he in white answered again, "It is well; this fire too shall never
die."
Then came the third, and answered boldly, and said, "I have brought my
fire safe, through peril and through strife; lo, see it here in my
heart!"
Then that one in white put aside his veil; and it was Love the Lord
himself. "Alas!" he said; "what is this you have done?"
And he opened the man's heart; and inside it was a black char, and white
ashes lying in it.