He gave her the yellow orange, and the golden coin for her own,
And the school had a royal feast that day whose like they had never known.
To Fräulein, the gentle mistress, he spoke such words of cheer,
That they lightened her anxious labor for many and many a year.
And because in his heart was hidden the memory of this thing,
The Lord had a better servant, the land had a better King.
—Mrs. Mary E. Bradley, in “Wide Awake.”
The Ballad of Breakneck.
The sun shines out on the mountain[261] crest;
Far down the valley the shadows[262] fall;