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    prison , neither can the anger of Zahoran , though it should rise as the whirlwind . Sweep not , therefore , Akiba into his grave , O my father ; for Leah ' s love must assuredly go down there with him , and her life also /

    If Zahoran was confounded at the speech of Akiba , he was yet more so at what he now heard . He frowned upon his daughter and withdrew himself from her , musing deeply on these things . When a few days had passed , Zahoran called Leah before him and said , Would st thou , indeed , become the wife of Akiba , my herdsman , and live with him in his hut in the valley , feeding thy father ' s flocks and cattle ? ' And Leah answered , ' I would . '

    Again Zahoran spoke , ' But would ' st thou not rather become the wife of a man v \ ho should be famous in his day , and worthy of future renown—for such thou may ' st have—that so thy love might take greater pride in its object V And Leah answered , ' I would , if Akiba were that man . * So Zahoran left his daughter with a perplexed thought and a serious brow .

    And again , after a few more days , he summoned her to his presence , and said , ' What can Akiba do besides tending cattle , and how can he become great in his generation V At these words Leah wept and answered , I know not , O my father ; but if the pressure of the world ' s ever-shifting sands kill him not , nor the winds and the tides oppose and cast him to and fro , so that Leah

    die while he becomes old in endeavour and grey with time , I believe that he could rise to honour and be famous among men . ' ' Then / said Zahoran , * let him go forth . Bear to Akiba these ten shekels of gold ; bid him become worthy of Zahoran ' s daughter , and he shall have her for his wife , nor want Zahoran ' s blessing on his house . '

    So Leah went to Akiba , sitting beneath a tree in the distant pastures , and told him all that Zahoran her father had said . And Akiba arose with a swelling bosom and a resolved soul ; and he blessed the name of Zahoran , and bent his steps towards the city of Jerusalem . Until the sun went down to his lonely bed , and the silent moon

    rose up into the dim and infinite solitude , Leah remained watching the spot where she had last seen the retiring form of him she loved . While the slow years moved onward to their pit , and no tidings of Akiba reached her ear , the shadows of evening renewed his form , and the echoes of the valleys wafted his voice to her soul . In visions of the noontide she roved far into the future , till time

    was lost in eternity . In visions of the night she beheld the past as present , and walked hand in hand with Akiba through the s weet-scented fields and woods , until the dews falling fast upon them , caused her to awake amidst the moisture of many tears . In visions of the morning , when the fresh-born earth is silent and unpeopled , she beheld his return and became his wife , joying in

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    Akiba . 649

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1834, page 649, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2637/page/45/