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52 THE CHILDREN OF
And every face did shine like the Holy One’s face upon
Tabor.
Lo! there entered then into the church the Reverend
Teacher.
Father he hight and he was in the parish; a christianly
plainness
Clothed from his head to his feet the old man of seventy
winters.
Friendly was he to behold, and glad as the heralding angel
Walked he among the crowds, but still a contemplative
grandeur
Lay on his forehead as clear, as on moss-covered
gravestone a sun-beam.
As in his inspiration (an evening twilight that faintly
Gleams in the human soul, even now, from the day of
creation)
Th’ Artist, the friend of heaven, imagines Saint John when
in Patmos,
Gray, with his eyes uplifted to heaven, so seemed then the
old man;
Such was the glance of his eye, and such were his tresses
of silver.
All the congregation arose in the pews that were numbered.
But with a cordial look, to the right and left hand, the old
man
Nodding all hail and peace, disappeared in the innermost
chancel.
Simply and solemnly now proceeded the Christian
service,
Singing and prayer, and at last an ardent discourse from
the old man.
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