THE FIVE BOONS OF LIFE Chapter II |
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THE FIVE BOONS OF LIFEChapter II
The fairy appeared, and said: "Four of the gifts remain. Choose once more; and oh, remember-- time is flying, and only one of them is precious." The man considered long, then chose Love; and did not mark the tears that rose in the fairy`s eyes. After many, many years the man sat by a coffin, in an empty home. And he communed with himself, saying: "One by one they have gone away and left me; and now she lies here, the dearest and the last. Desolation after desolation has swept over me; for each hour of happiness the treacherous trader, Love, as sold me I have paid a thousand hours of grief. Out of my heart of hearts I curse him."
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