There is no reply.I will tell you plainly that I have a great hope;and I bring it to you to be tested.It is this:that this terrible dumb question is its own reply;that it is not the sentence of death we think it,but,from the very extremity of its darkness,the most solemn prophecy which the world has known of the Hope to come.I dare make my meaning no clearer,but will only tell my story.It will,perhaps,seem to you as foul and dark as this thick vapor about us,and as pregnant with death;but if your eyes are free as mine are to look deeper,no perfume-tinted dawn will be so fair with promise of the day that shall surely come.
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