The morning watch or Thoughts for the quiet . he old and young, the lordly and thelow, were seen mingling together in delightedexpectation. All business, all common pursuits,were forsaken. The priests and friars aban-doned their altars and their masses, and lookedalarmed, or were seen standing by themselves,shunned like lepers. . Travellers suddenlymounted and sped into the country with thetidings. . Barques departing from the harborbore up to each other at sea to tell the heard the tidings as they watchedtheir flocks. . The whole land was moved;the whole country was stir
The morning watch or Thoughts for the quiet . he old and young, the lordly and thelow, were seen mingling together in delightedexpectation. All business, all common pursuits,were forsaken. The priests and friars aban-doned their altars and their masses, and lookedalarmed, or were seen standing by themselves,shunned like lepers. . Travellers suddenlymounted and sped into the country with thetidings. . Barques departing from the harborbore up to each other at sea to tell the heard the tidings as they watchedtheir flocks. . The whole land was moved;the whole country was stirred with a new in-spiration, and the hearts of enemies , if that was the effect of the sudden presenceof a man like ourselves, — a man whom we willrejoice to meet in the Kingdom, but only a man,— what will the land feel, what will the earthfeel, when the news comes, The Son of man!The Son of mail! His sign has been seen inthe heaven! O wise virgins, with what joy willyou go out to meet him ! 23[ . AUGUST WITH J. R.
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