Phantastes

by George MacDonald

In whatever sorrow you may be, however inconsolable and irremediable it may appear, believe me that the old woman in the cottage, with the young eyes" (and she smiled), "knows something, though she must not always tell it, that would quite satisfy you about it, even in the worst moments of your distress.

May the world be brighter for me, at least in those portions of it, where my darkness falls not.

Yet I know that good is coming to me—that good is always coming;