The Lord forbid! What would the people think, 70 For the lost pathway leading to the If they should see the Reverend Cot village. ton Mather Reverend sir, You are welcome, reverend sir, thrice The village is near by. I'm going welcome here Beneath my humble roof. MATHER. I thank your Worship. HATHORNE. Touching these witchcrafts that so much afflict you; And see with mine own eyes the wonders told Multitudes in the Valley of Destruction ! But when our fervent, well-directed prayers, Which are the great artillery of Heaven, Of spectres and the shadows of the dead, That come back from their graves to Are brought into the field, I see them speak with men. HATHORNE. 10 Some men there are, I have known such, who think scattered And driven like autumn leaves before the wind. HATHORNE. That the two worlds- the seen and You, as a Minister of God, can meet the unseen, spirit The world of matter and the world of With spiritual weapons; but, alas! Are like the hemispheres upon our maps, And touch each other only at a point. But these two worlds are not divided thus, Save for the purposes of common speech. They form one globe, in which the parted seas 19 All flow together and are intermingled, While the great continents remain distinct. It must be so. The death-pangs of the The Unclean Spirit said, "My name is Will make him more a Devil than be Legion !" fore; |