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"""I will end my story with the relation of an incident which befell me a few days
ago. I had been with my reapers, and, when they ceased their work at noon, I
had lain down under the shadow of a great, ancient beech-tree, that stood on
the edge of the field. As I lay, with my eyes closed, I began to listen to the
sound of the leaves overhead. At first, they made sweet inarticulate music
alone; but, by-and-by, the sound seemed to begin to take shape, and to be
gradually moulding itself into words; till, at last, I seemed able to
distinguish these, half-dissolved in a little ocean of circumfluent tones:
“A great good is coming—is coming—is coming to thee,
Anodos;” and so over and over again. I fancied that the sound reminded me
of the voice of the ancient woman, in the cottage that was four-square. I
opened my eyes, and, for a moment, almost believed that I saw her face, with
its many wrinkles and its young eyes, looking at me from between two hoary
branches of the beech overhead. But when I looked more keenly, I saw only twigs
and leaves, and the infinite sky, in tiny spots, gazing through between. Yet I
know that good is coming to me—that good is always coming; though few
have at all times the simplicity and the courage to believe it. What we call
evil, is the only and best shape, which, for the person and his condition at
the time, could be assumed by the best good. And so, Farewell."" - Phantastes, by George MacDonald"
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