| Show A legend of the czi el 0 ter childre by LIESLIE PINCKNEY HILT T THE HE legend legends eay say children were to be abroad that eastek day when morning out of darkness dar knees burst and angele angels rolled the tone stone away for children childrens baarts are quick to feel the deaden deadens dea deng ng pall of mort mortal a pam pain and children childrens heart hearts are first t to 0 heal when light and comfort come agam again and they had loved the lord christ christs face and on an hi his knees hail had laughed and cried and heard him say ay the heavenly place Is I 1 where all childlike child like souls abide and they had often heard him tell strong men by pride and greed defiled that they could never please him well till they were humble as a a child and they had heard heart the tale that grieves gaeve gneve all little heart hearts t how one so dear wa was nailed upon a cross cro with thieve thieves and tortured with a poisoned pear spearl A and ad d how the temple temples wondrous won drou veil wa was riven by the lightning stroke while mingled with the women wall wail the earthquake and the thunder broke and how black night came down at noon and choats from grave that opened wide skulked out beneath a bloodied blo odred moon when he that lovd loved the children died for two long day days no girl or boy in galilee or jordan plain could laugh or ing sing far for hope and joy in every little heart wa was klain ulain but when the earth that third day morn wa was flooded with uch such gulden As A never since the world wa was lva lr had come to dazzle human eight sight then every child tho legend legends ay say knew that the time wa was at an end knew that the tone stone wa was rolled away and flew to meet the risen men friend sand long before the magdalene had reached the apty sepulchre or peter heard what he she had seen or fleet john hastened after her the children had gone forth and found fouad the master in the garden walk and scattered lilies on the ground and seen his mile smile and heard hi him m talk no child was puny halt or irme Is ine or hungry or in tat tatters terr clad but clothed as a if in light they came and all were whole and strong and glad they throng along the kedron rill they thread the city through the gates straight up to josephs pardon carden hill where he that loves the children waits they dance they sing sinet they climb the trees they circle round in ring and effle they know they cannot fail to please and win the guerdon of his hi s smile he lifts his hands hand I 1 bore the pain pain I 1 of death for men by sin defiled I 1 rise henceforth to live and reign lord of the kingdom of the child 91 they vanish and he stand J alone and when the women come coma t weep the garden flames with flowers nev new blown the children are at home asleep what makes that garden spot so bright the learned rabbis stroked their chins they knew not yet that love is light that knowledge fails where love begins but somehow till on easter mom morn the world is beautiful again and in each childlike child like heart is bom some same yearning of good will to mer some haunting sense tome happy dream of singing birds birda of daffodils of olive alive branches or the gleam of dew shine on the syrian hills philadelphia Philadel ohia abla ledger |
