THE GLORY THAT WAS SION’S
The minister went away, and he said to his congregation:
“Be comforted. Twm will be buried in the new little burial-ground.”
Time wore on. The title deeds of the new burial-ground were made over to the First Men, and Capel Sion lifted his head and murmured, “The glory of Sion is not departed.”
Although light flickered in the window of Tybach throughout several nights; although many saw the Candle of the Corpse that spirit light which foretells death going out of the house and along the road to Capel Sion; although Madlen herself heard the moan of the Spirit Hound, Twm did not die.
People did not come any more to Tybach, and the praying men ceased to pray for Twm; for they knew he would die, and whether he liked it or not his sinful bones would rest in the land that was the glory of Capel Sion.
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