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Said his sister’s angel to the leader, “ Is my brother come ? !*
And he said, " Nay, but his maiden daughter ! ”
And the man who had been a child,, saw his daughter, newly lost
to him, a celestial creature among those three, and he said: “ My
daughter’s head is on my sister's bosom, and her arm is around my
mother’s neck, and at her feet. is the baby of old time, and I can bear
the parting from her, God be praised! ”— and the star was shining.
Thus the child came to be an old man, and his once .smooth face
was wrinkled, and his steps were slow and feeble, and his back was
bent. And one night as he lay upon his bed, his children standing
round, he cried, as he cried so long ago : “ T see the star! "
They whispered one another, ” lie is dying.” And he said, “ I am.
M3? age is falling from me like a garment, and I move towards the star
as a child. And O, my Father, now I thank Thee that it has so often
opened to receive those dear ones who await me! ”
i W ‘he star was shining; and it shines upon his grave.
C h a r l e s D ic k e n s

HILDA, SPINNING.

[THt; figures refer to the corresponding numbeni in Pari. I,]
PTXNING, spinning, by the sea,
A ll the night!
On a stormy, rock-ribbed shore/
Where the north-winds downward pour,
And the tempests fiercely sweep21
h’rotn the mountains to the deep,
Hilda spins beside the sea,
All the night!

Spinning, a* her lonely window,
By the sea !
With her candle burning clear,
Every night of all the year,