f among the children were those I might not bear to you! And
fare you well, Heart-of-mine, for I must be gone, and now the time is
long indeed."

"Oh! whither, Beloved of my soul, from my arms that clasp yet cannot
hold you?"

"Heart-of-mine, where but back to earth, to do the work you left undone,
to gather up, with patience and with toil, the sheaves you left
behind!"

GILLYFLOWER GENTLEMAN

"Why do you play alone, dear," asked the Play Angel, "and look so sadly
over your shoulder at the other children?"

"Because they are so selfish!" said the child. "They will not play with
me."

"Oh, the pity!" said the Angel. "Tell me all about it."

"I want to play one game, and they all want to play another!" said the
child. "It is very unkind of them."

"Did you ever play Gillyflower Gentleman?" asked the Angel.

"No!" said the child. "What is it?"

"You shall see!" said the Angel. "Let us ask the others if they know
it."

The other children did not know it, but they were eager to learn, and
soon they were all playing Gillyflower Gentleman; they played till all
their breath was gone, and they had to sit down on the haycocks to rest.

"That was a great game!" said the first child. "I will play yours now,
if you wish me to."

"We were just going to tell you that we would play yours!" said the
other children. So they played both, and the Play Angel went back to her
work.

THE JUDGMENT

"_Of judgment, because the Prince of this World is judged._"--

Now came the day when the Prince should be brought to judgment. Slowly
he came, under the weight of his fetters, that clanged about his wrists
and feet. His head was low on his breast, and his eyes heavy; so he
stood before the judgment seat, and spoke not, nor raised his eyes.

The little Judge looked on him, and sighed, and spoke.

"It was you who saw me hungry and naked and cold, and drew your furs
round you and passed by."

"Yea!" said the Prince.

"It was you who set me cruel tasks, and smote me when I fainted under
them."

"Yea!" said the Prince.

"It was you who cast me into prison, into darkness and bitterness as of
death."

"Yea!" said the Prince.

"Alas!" said the little Judge. "Poor soul, did you know no better?"

When the Prince heard that a great sob burst from him, and he fell on
his face before the judgment seat, and his fetters clanged loud on the
stone.

Oh! then came little feet pattering down the steps, and little h