The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-04-24
THE BROKEN WING.


comes. with the cold.
At the foot of hill is road. a lit
tie girl, barefoot and very poor, is lead
ing a flock, another's flock. along this
road. She is the living image-thoueh
for her there be SO little of living-of
misery and abandonment In her IL
short years her hands have grown fee
bier, more weary, even than are those
of the very aged. But in her deep eyes
the ideal sequences have prolonged
themselves; through days OF silence,
doubtless. she has dreamed, and through
the nights. too, under the pale light OF
the stars. The understanding OF the
lowly is sometimes divine.
Suddenly, in the middle OF the road,
her dog stops, as il transAxed, and
stands trembling and awestricken.
| Marie, advancing, perceives, IN the
shadow Of the thicket. form half OBJ
scured, yet radiantly white, and encir-
cled with an aureole.
| The child has prescience Of miracle
and is not astonisbed. She mutely con-
siders the mysterious being Yes, 1t IL
an angel-with flowing robe, with
abundant locks, with visage severely
pure. such as one sees in the frescoes ON
the walls of churches. But this angel
has only one wing, and his mien is In
effably sad. Putting her hands together,
palm to palm, she speaks to him softly
and in tones of prayer:
"Ob, beautiful prince Of heaven,
salute you'll would serve you. Since
YOU are come hither, it must be to bring
ioy ON the earth, and thank you'll"
But the immortal answers with
great sob and then quickly exc]aims:
"Where am 1? On earth. in exile
Banisbed Strickenl Chastised! 1t ia
ioy that I bring. hast thou said, q
daughter Of men? Alas, behold me
What am /?
ssIn the fall ordained TO me / have
lost a wing! No more OF heaven, mol
vet am / Of earthl Suspense and feal
hold horrible menace for me OF things
unknown. On high, 1t seems, yester
day declared too hard Judgment upoI
mankind, their passions-their vileness
: as il is called-upon crimes whereof
o knew not. So, as punishment Tor Jude
r ment temerarious. the King OF kings
the power supreme, hath sentenced m
70 test the terrestrial life, prey t
those temptations erstwhi)e regarde
as beneath contempt. Should l rests
II and prove the victor in these successlv
trials. then will the azure and the colo
: the interchangeable armament and Its ete'
Il nal plories, be restored to me. BIZ
sbould / once fail must dwell in TIL
s thy world until the final Judgment
a men. am afraid-of all things An
D. thou-who art thouY
/ 81 am only poor, kinless child,
Ell ceived of charity, who farmer she'
o. must guard that may live-sometim
re hardly. sometimes well, according
We the weather-and who, an angel seein
rs kpeel to him in prayer. that he Will be-
IN me hence to heaven
I'd Then the angel wept yet harder.
"Alasl Heaven is closed to me, al
ho this one wing, that must drag so pal
he fully, but deepens my affection remin
he ing me of my origin. and nothing ser
&c ing me upon this earth where mu
lie walk. II is the last warning that
ok mains TO me. AT my first fault TIL
IS too. will fall, and / shall be bound
this neither sphere. inexorably deliver
over to vileness, far from yonder 80
he Unity Of space-I, Cyriam the Magni
cent. bearer of light Oh, these ten
yle tatiops of men! How dread the
I'd child. even ms before l scorned thel
1T What is that dreadful noise!
of Strident songs disturbed the stilln
l. Of the night, and the lurid glare
torches, tossed by the wind. drew he
er and dyed with bloody hue the de
not late countryside, Weakened to horror.
ia, Amid a troop on horseback Regil
on. the courtesan, was returning to
OF dwelling from forest chase The no
the cortege stopped in front of Cyriam
vi Marie.
als whats there? Some vagabon
md Make way Make way ]"
,al- The angel, circled by the seal
fol- torches. looked whittier even than beft
AT sight of him there were bursts
vo, laughter.
WON WON "What kind of crippled fowl is h'
ON Loose We the dogs, the chase is not
,on donel It's n stork-or is 1t, perchai
won q white turkey cock?'
won The angel. risen to his full heil
m, snatcbed a sword from ono of those '
the were pressing upon him and iaid
vii dead at his feet.
ana A peal of thunder resounded.
tber second wing fell, the white robe
, ma md the aureole vanished. A voice CT
mo. 1.-THE first trial-anger y
"a Already the courtesan. Regina,
thrown herself into thu combat.
min. she gazed upon the angel. struck by
80, superhuman beauty.
'.eei "Come. I love thee!" she 6
ipie' "Tbou didst we'll to slay this fell
ro'n He insulted thee, the drunkard! Fo
81 mel"
IL IL Then Cyriam cried:
ASn "Since no longer l am moro
'ea, man. earth's pleasures shall be n
'oor III follow thee-thou art beautif
. and I-I-indeed am lost y
o" And as he mingled with the TN
!; they did homage to him for ms
p'oa and his splendid presence.
y 80 Marie. left alone. wept in the
80 way, knowing that great evil hat
fallen, ara her dog. for PHYS
iAe licked the teardrops from her
while her sheep grazed where they IL
Cyriam, of origin divine, Is
sr nj. among men. ne IL 'ho n u
and the strongest, the most Deio.eu
III of wished for gold-be Is rich; for
both and titles--he has them. In war
n the terminates, and the obscure CROW
ROW combatants give way before him