st-paul-s

A strong, vague persuasion that it was better to go forward than backward, and that I could go forward_ that a way, however narrow and difficult, would in time open_ predominated over other feelings: its influence hushed them so far, that at last I became sufficiently tranquil to be able to say my prayers and seek my couch. I had just extinguished my candle and lain down, when a deep, low, mighty tone swung through the night. At first I knew it not; but it was uttered twelve times, and at the twelfth colossal hum and trembling knell, I said: __ lie in the shadow of St. Paul__.