Perelandra

Paradise Hand-in-Hand

As the light reached its perfection and settled itself, and filled the whole flowery cup of the mountain top, Paradise itself in two persons, Paradise walking hand in hand, came in sight in the cleft between the two peaks and stood a moment with its male right hand lifted in regal and pontifical benediction. And the gods kneeled and bowed their huge bodies before the small forms of that young King and Queen.