` Nay , if it please thee to forget -- the one thing only that thou hast not told me . Surely thou must know ? See , I am an old man ! I ask with my head between thy feet , O Fountain of Wisdom . We know He drew the bow ! We know the arrow fell ! We know the stream gushed ! Where , then , is the River ? My dream told me to find it . So I came . I am here . But where is the River ? ' ` If I knew , think you I would not cry it aloud ? ' ` By it one attains freedom from the Wheel of Things , ' the lama went on , unheeding . ` The River of the Arrow ! Think again ! Some little stream , maybe -- dried in the heats ? But the Holy One would never so cheat an old man . ' ' I do not know . I do not know . '
The XXXXX brought his thousand-wrinkled face once more a handsbreadth from the Englishman 's . '
Arrow Holy Nay River Things bow freedom lama stream thing