thomas kinkade painting

The two stand in the fast-thinning throng of victims, but they speak as if they were alone. Eye to eye, voice to voice, hand to hand, heart to heart, these two children of the Universal Mother, else so wide apart and differing, have come together on the dark highway, to repair home together, and to rest in her bosom. ¡¡¡¡"Brave and generous friend, will you let me ask you one last question? I am very ignorant, and it troubles me- just a little." ¡¡¡¡"Tell me what it is." ¡¡

¡¡"I have a cousin, an only relative and an orphan, like myself, whom I love very dearly. She is five years younger than I, and she lives in a farmer's house in the south country. Poverty parted us, and she knows nothing of my fate- for I cannot write- and if I could, how should I tell her! It is better as it is." ¡¡¡¡"Yes, yes: better as it is." ¡¡¡¡"What I have been thinking as we came along, and what I am still thinking now, as I look into your kind strong face which gives me so much support, is this:- If the Republic really does good to the poor, and they come to be less hungry, and in all ways to suffer less, she may live a long time: she may even live to be old."