73 x 55 cm, India ink on paper
"...If this indeed be the hour in which I lift up my lantern, it is not my flame that shall burn therein.
Empty and dark shall I raise my lantern,
And the guardian of the night shall fill it with oil and he shall light it also.
These things he said in words. But much in his heart remained unsaid. For he himself could not speak his deeper secret..."
From Kahlil Gibran's prose work The Prophet (1923), chapter 'The coming of the ship'