I could fall down, and wet his feet with tears--
Tears penitential for the grievous wrong
That I have done him. But alas! alas!
The thought comes back again. O God in heaven!
Help me with patience to await the hour
When the great purpose of thy discipline
Shall be revealed, and, like this chastened one,
I can behold it, and be satisfied.

_Mary_.

Hark! They are calling us below, I think.
We must go down. We'll talk of this again
When we have leisure. Kiss the little one,
And thank his weary brain it sleeps so well.

[_They descend_.]




SECOND EPISODE.

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LOCALITY--_The Kitchen_.

PRESENT--JOSEPH, SAMUEL, REBEKAH, _and other_
CHILDREN.