How to Remember a Story
to him, a celestial creature among those three, (f) and he said, "My daughter's head is on my sister's bosom, and her arm is around my mother's neck, and at her feet is the baby of old time, (g) and I can bear the parting from her, (h) God be praised!"
And the star was shining.
Scene VI. (a) Thus the child came to be an old man, and his once smooth face was wrinkled, and his steps were slow and feeble, and his back was bent. (b) And one night as he lay upon his bed, (c) his children standing round, (d) he cried, as he had cried long ago:
"I see the star!"
(e) They whispered one another, "He is dying."
(f) And he said, "I am. (g) My age is falling from me like a garment, and I move towards the star as a
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