ANGRY LOVER
Before God’s throne came the angry lover. “I am betrayed!” he cried, and the courts of Heaven rang again with the sound of the word. “Thy daughter Life have I wooed. For her have I given all—yea, all—since that is the price of love, and now, behold, Thou hast given me her dark sister, Death!”
“Yet have I but one daughter,” answered God.
“Is it possible that even yet thou dost not know me?” whispered the veiled one.