But he laughed and pulled the boy’s hair with a gentle hand; which seems to prove that one is not necessarily incapable of learning even after one has “come to forty years.”
Note.—This story is founded on fact. That is to say, although it is mine as regards characters and incidents, the motif, the clairvoyance of the child, is true. The drastic methods which were employed for the repression of the gifts of the luckless little seer are also facts, and that is the reason I wrote the story.
THE MYSTERY OF THE SON
OF MAN
Lord God of Glory, Pow’r of Perfect Light,
Look on Thy little children of the wild,
In whose frail souls the Son of Man is born
Thine is the pow’r of pain and anguish, Lord,
Thine is the chrysm of the agony,
The bitter wisdom born within the soul