but the woman

Felt no miraculous touch, for the press kept her

back and rebuked her.

"Why comest thou to the Prophet?" they said.

"Get thee hence and be silent;

"He hath no mercy for thee or thy kind"; and

the woman stood weeping.

Now when the even was come over Nain, and the

bridge of the twilight,

Silently floating aloft on the deepening flood of the