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"Is my brother come?"
(d) And he said, "Thy mother!"
(e) A mighty cry of joy went forth through all the star, because the mother was re-united to her two children. (f) And he stretched out his arms and cried, "O, mother, sister,. and brother, I am here! Take me!"
(g) And they answered him, "Not yet," and the star was shining.
Scene V. (a) He grew to be a man, whose hair was turning gray, and he was sitting in his chair by his fireside, heavy with grief, and with his face bedewed with tears, (b) when the star opened once again.
(c) Said his sister's angel to the leader:
"Is my brother come?"
(d) And he said, "Nay, but his maiden daughter."
(e) And the man who had been the child saw his daughter, newly lost
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