Shadow

<SPAN name="startofbook"></SPAN> <h3><SPAN name="chap282"></SPAN>A SHADOW</h3> <p> I said unto myself, if I were dead,<br/> What would befall these children? What would be<br/> Their fate, who now are looking up to me<br/> For help and furtherance? Their lives, I said,<br/> Would be a volume wherein I have read<br/> But the first chapters, and no longer see<br/> To read the rest of their dear history,<br/> So full of beauty and so full of dread.<br/> Be comforted; the world is very old,<br/> And generations pass, as they have passed,<br/> A troop of shadows moving with the sun;<br/> Thousands of times has the old tale been told;<br/> The world belongs to those who come the last,<br/> They will find hope and strength as we have done.<br/></p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />