All in a garden fair; the simple story of three boys ... - University Library

112 ALL LV A GARDEN FAIR.
His voice sank and lie went on talking, as
if to himself, in deep musical tone.
* The world for mankind. Yes—for wliom
else should it be ? But they made mistakes.
They talked of the Eights of Man. Yet the
w^eak must be defeated. Is that a Eight?
There must also be rich and poor. Is it a
Eight—to be poor ? They talked of the Voice
of the People, and the Voice of God. How is
one to recoc^nise that Voice .^ I have sought
for it, but I have never been able to hear it.
Is the utterer of that Voice perchance a priest ?
Or if the people were to speak would they ask
for more than sleep and idleness, with dancing,
and feasting, and love-making? Is that the
Voice of God ?
' They told us tliat tlie people are full of
generous aspirations. Tliere have been four
Eevolutions. I do not remember any generous
deeds or noble tlioughts from the crowd. There
liave been guillotine and hanging a la lantrrne,
witli pikes and heads upon them and barri-
cades. But I do not remember to have heard