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THE GREAT STONE FACE.
glistening with tears, he gazed reverentially at the vener-
able man, and said within himself that never was there
an aspect SO worthy of a prophet and a sage as that
mild, sweet, thoughtful countenance, with the glory of
white hair diffused about it. At a distance, but dis-
tinctly to be seen, high up in the golden light of the
setting sun, appeared the Great Stone Face, with hoary
mists around it, like the white hairs around the brow of
Ernest. Its look of grand beneficence seemed to em-
brace the world.
At that moment, in sympathy with a thought which
he was about to utter, the face of Ernest assumed a
grandeur of expression, SO imbued with benevolence, that
the poet, by an irresistible impulse, threw his arms aloft,
and shouted,
Behold ! Behold ! Ernest is himself the likeness of
the Great Stone Face
Then all the people looked, and saw that what the deep-
sighted poet said was true. The prophecy was fulfilled.
But Ernest, having finished what he had to say, took
the poet's arm, and walked slowly homeward, still hoping
that some wiser and better man than himself would by
and by appear, bearing a resemblance to the GREAT
STONE FACE.
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