Canst thou yet tell me, brother, what that remedy shall
be, lest the sun rise upon me made hopeless by thy tale of what is to
be? And, lo you, soon shall she rise upon the earth."
In truth the dawn was widening now, and the colours coming into the
pictures on wall and in window; and as well as I could see through the
varied glazing of these last (and one window before me had as yet
nothing but white glass in it), the ruddy glow, which had but so
little a while quite died out in the west, was now beginning to gather
in the east--the new day was beginning. I looked at the poppy that I
still carried in my hand, and it seemed to me to have withered and
dwindled. I felt anxious to speak to my companion and tell him much,
and withal I felt that I must hasten, or for some reason or other I
should be too late; so I spoke at last loud and hurriedly:
"John Ball, be of good cheer; for once more thou knowest, as I know,
that the Fellowship of Men shall endure, however many tribulations it
may have to wear through. Look you, a while ago was the light bright
about us; but it was because of the moon, and the night was deep
notwithstanding, and when the moonlight waned and died, and there was
but a little glimmer in place of the bright light, yet was the world
glad because all things knew that the glimmer was of day and not of
night.
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