Crossword-Solution: CHANGELESS 10 letters, 22 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 16

Was there not something gone from Trina now? Was he not disappointed in her for doing that very thing for which he had longed? Was Trina the submissive, the compliant, the attainable just the same, just as delicate and adorable as Trina the inaccessible? Perhaps he dimly saw that this must be so, that it belonged to the changeless order of things--the man desiring the woman only for what she withholds; the woman worshipping the man for that which she yields up to him.

Little they tarried, but gat them down the steep of the mountain, and so lower and lower till they were come to ground nigh level; and then at last it was but thus, that without any great rock-wall or girdle of marvellous and strange land, there was an end of earth, with its grass and trees and streams, and a beginning of the ocean, which stretched away changeless, and it might be for ever.

But a yet more depressing feature in the grey facade is its telescopic length and changeless continuity.

From the gallery window the tomb of her son was plainly visible—standing as the nearest object in a prospect which was closed outwardly by the changeless horizon of the sea.

This “young man”, she thinks, will be wiser in time, “for kind Calm years, exacting their accompt Of pain, mature the mind:” and then the wind, when it begins among the vines, so low, so low, will have for him another language; such as this:-- “Here is the change beginning, here the lines Circumscribe beauty, set to bliss The limit time assigns.” This is the language SHE has learned: We cannot draw one beauty into our hearts’ core, and keep it changeless.