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himself to spring six feet over eternity and catch it as 

 it swung loose in the wind ; where the father, when he 

 saw the rope, on which he hung below his boy, chafing 

 against the sharp edge of the rock above, and no longer 

 strong enough to carry both, drew his knife and cut his 

 own weight off to save his boy ; where the miracle of 

 feeding the Israelites in the desert, and Elijah by the 

 Brook Cherith, is still every year renewed, and the 

 meat of the people brought on the wings of birds, at the 

 ordering of the God of Nature, who teaches ' the Stork 

 in the heaven to know her appointed times,' and 

 Fulmars and Gannets, as well as ' the Turtle, the Crane, 

 and the Swallow, to observe the time of their coming.' 



