When first they mixed the Clay of Man and clothed His Spirit in the Robe of Perfect Beauty, For Forty Mornings did an evil Cloud Rain Sorrows over him from Head to Foot; And when the Forty Mornings passed to Night, There came one Morning-Shower--one Morning-Shower Of Joy--to Forty of the Rain of Sorrow! And though the better Fortune came at last To seal the Work, yet every Wise Man knows Such Consummation never can be here! Of the stories in this volume, “Witherle’s Freedom” and “Serene’s Religious Experience” were first published in _The Century Magazine_; “A Consuming Fire,” “Hardesty’s Cowardice” and “The Honor of a Gentleman” in _Harper’s Weekly_; “At the End of the World” in _The Indep…
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