The Pot of Gold - And Other Stories by Mary E. Wilkins
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"And whom is it for, O Pilgrim, pray?"
And the pine-leaves answered: "For thee, Sweetheart, should'st thou go that way." Flax did not exactly understand the sense of the last question and answer between maple and pine-leaves. But they kept on saying it over and over as she ran along. She was going straight to the tall pine-tree. She knew just where it was, for she had often been there. Now the rain-drops began to splash through the green boughs, and the thunder rolled along the sky. The leaves all tossed about in a strong wind and their soft rustles grew into a roar, and the branches and the whole tree caught it up and called out so loud as they writhed and twisted about that Flax was almost deafened, the words of the song: "O what is it shineth so golden-clear?" Flax sped along through the wind and the rain and the thunder. She was very much afraid that she should not reach the tall pine which was quite a way distant before the sun shone out, and the rainbow came. The sun was already breaking through the clouds when she came in sight of it, way up above her on a rock. The rain-drops on the trees began to shine like diamonds, and the words of the song rushed out from their midst, louder and sweeter: "O what is it shineth so golden-clear?" Flax climbed for dear life. Red and green and golden rays were already |
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