arms, and cried, "Oh, sister, I am here! Take me!" (q) and then she turned her beaming eyes upon him, and it was night; and the star was shining in the room, making long rays down towards him as he saw it through his tears.
(r) From that hour forth, the child looked out upon the star as on the home he was to go to, when his time should come; (s) and he thought that he did not belong to the earth alone, but to the star too, (t) because of his sister's angel gone before.
Scene III. (a) There was a baby born to be a brother to the child; (b) and while he was so little that he never yet had spoken a word, he stretched his tiny form out on his bed and died.
(c) Again the child dreamed of the open star, and of the company of angels, and the train of people, and
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