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nor an emigrant train on creaking wagons, seeking
a new home for the needy; nor an army with drums
and weapons. It is nothing but a crowd of poor
peasants in their working clothes of homespun and
ragged sheepskin, only their wives with their
knitting in their hands and children on their backs or
dragging at their skirts. It is a wonderful sight to
see people united in a great aim, whether they go
to greet their conqueror, to praise their God, to seek
new dwellings for the needy, to defend their land—but
neither hunger nor the fear of God and not
war had called together these people. Their toil was
in vain, their labor without wage; they go but to
seek an idiot girl. So much exertion, so many steps
taken, so much anxiety, so many prayers, will they
not be repaid with more than the finding of a poor
crazy girl whose understanding is with God!
Oh, do you not love those people! When you
stånd by the roadside and see them pass, do not
your eyes fill with tears as you see them march
forward, deep in thought, men with harsh faces and
hard hands, women with brows wrinkled early, and
the tired children whom God will guide to the
hidden place!
It filled the road—that stream of sorrowing
searchers. They probed the forest with earnest
looks and went forward gloomily, for they knew
they were probably seeking for a corpse and not
a living being.
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