him, the darkness stood out.

"All earth is ours. And the day shall come, when the stars, looking down
on this little world, shall see no spot where the soil is moist and dark
with the blood of man shed by his fellow man; the sun shall rise in the
East and set in the West and shed his light across this little globe; and
nowhere shall he see man crushed by his fellows. And they shall beat their
swords into ploughshares and their spears into pruning hooks: nation shall
not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
And instead of the thorn shall come up the fir-tree; and instead of the
brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and man shall nowhere crush man on
all the holy earth. Tomorrow's sun shall rise," said the stranger, "and it
shall flood these dark kopjes with light, and the rocks shall glint in it.
Not more certain is that rising than the coming of that day. And I say to
you that even here, in the land where now we stand, where today the cries
of the wounded and the curses of revenge ring in the air; even here, in
this land where man creeps on his belly to wound his fellow in the dark,
and where an acre of gold is worth a thousand souls, and a reef of shining
dirt is worth half a people, and the vultures are heavy with man's flesh--
even here that day shall come. I tell you, Peter Simon Halket, that here
on the spot where now we stand shall be raised a temple. Man shall not
gather in it to worship that which divides; but they shall stand in it
shoulder to shoulder, white man with black, and the stranger with the
inhabitant of the land; and the place shall be holy; for men shall say,
'Are we not brethren and the sons of one Father?'"

Peter Halket looked upward silently. And the stranger said: "Certain men
slept upon a plain, and the night was chill and dark. And, as they slept,
at that hour when night is darkest, one stirred. Far off to the eastward,
through his half-closed eyelids, he saw, as it were, one faint line, thin