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Identifier: sacredallegories00adam_0 (find matches)
Title: Sacred allegories
Year: 1859 (1850s)
Authors: Adams, William, 1814-1848
Subjects: Bible Allegories Ethics in the Bible Christian life Christian ethics
Publisher: London : Rivingtons
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
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s child was well nigh stunned by the fall; andwhen he recovered his feet, he trembled exceedingly, and the markof the green grass was deeply imprinted on his clothes; yet I was gladthat the accident made him grasp his little cross, which before hehad well nigh forgotten, the more firmly in his hand. Just as hiscompanion joined him, he held it thoughtfully towards the sun; andwhen he saw that its image was not reflected on the wood, but ona hard dull path, leading in an opposite direction, he at once turnedaside from the beautiful butterfly which he had so long beenfollowing. Wayward too seemed a little frightened by his companions fall,for he also took out his cross; and when its dim shadow fell on thesame hard, dull path, he too relinquished the pursuit of the butterfly,and accompanied Mirth. So the two boys walked on, sadly and THE SHADOW OF THE CROSS. 67 silently, together; but Mirth limped a little as he went, from thepain of his fall. Very glad I was that they had not ventured to
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i enter the wood; for, though they saw them not, I could see thebright eyes of a serpent gleaming from beneath the myrtle on which 33 THE SHADOW OF THE CROSS. the butterfly was resting. He seemed to be waiting anxiously forthe approach of the children, and I doubt not there was poison inhis fang. Now, I have said that the road by which Mirth and Waywardleft the grove of myrtles was dull and^ hard; for I had by thistime discovered that, soft and beautiful as every thing looked in thedistance, there were not only some paths in the garden deceitful anddangerous, but others hard and dull. It led them by many awithered leaf and faded flower; and each leaf and flower was wateredby the tears of Mirth, for his eyes were ever fixed downward uponthe ground : he was as one who was unconscious whither he waswalking, and whose only care was so to measure each step that itmight fall exactly in the shadow before him. Wayward, too, fora little while, looked downward also, and step by step trod in the

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