text: she smiled she knew she was dying but it did not matter any longer she had known something which no human words could ever tell and she knew it now she had been awaiting it and she felt it as if it had been as if she had lived it life had been if only because she had known it could be and she felt it now as a hymn without sound deep under the little whole that dripped red drops into the snow deeper than that from which the red drops came a moment or an eternity did it matter life undefeated existed and could exist she smiled her last smile to so much that had been possible