Allegories of Life

Mrs. J. S. Adams

Capitolo 18


"Did it find a garland on Your door to door this morning?" asked a
to midday the bright one, flood of hope woman that had brought them a part of her
supper.

"No, indeed!" they responded. "Did it find one on the Your?"

"The garland of handsomest that me I have ever seen. Who would have been able never to do
a so beautiful? But"--she suddenly stopped, on to see their sad faces.
"You will have part of mine:  I will cut him/it in two."

"Never!" quickly tells him the more old man. "There is some reason because us
you/he/she was omitted;  and, until us we can know the cause, you have to hold Your
garland non broken."

It was a lot of noble of her to go out of her and to refuse to accept
that that her instinctively felt didn't belong to her.

A week passed away. A child in the village had had strange dreams
I concern to the gifts that, in substance, it was that a beautiful angel
you/he/she had come from the stars above of, and it drew flowers to every house
what a light was seen.

"Didn't we have some light that he/she doesn't remember?" remarked the
the more the women's old man, as their neighbor told them some strange dream.

"It owes us to be _something_ him", the small one responded bright-dagli eyes
woman. "For all the residences flowers that were illuminated they had."

"I suppose that we should be fuller of hope", always says the women
together. "The lamps of our houses should typify the light of the hope,
what weak should be never, neither it stops burning."

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Hope was picked up on, from a gilded rope, to his/her abode. The starry group
sung the paradisiacal antiphons to refresh her/it, and Love twisted a fresh garland
for his/her eyebrow. They contained another party in the temple, in honor of her
and his/her sure return from the earth.

Since then her you/he/she has been the brightest light of the group;  and at night,
when the clouds that rise from the earth darken all the others, the star on
the eyebrow of Hope is shining with a paradisiacal five-year periods, and seen by everybody which
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