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Perceval rideth one day, all heavy in thought, and taketh his way as fast as he may toward the hermitage of his uncle King Hermit. He is come thither on an eventide, and seeth three hermits issued forth of the hermitage. He alighteth and goeth to meet them so soon as he seeth them. "Sir," say the hermits, "Enter not in, for they are laying out a body there." "Who is it?" saith Perceval.
How or whence it came they could not tell, nor did they question but they knew that the love they bore each other was no brother and sister love, but that what time they had been calling each other "Buddie," and "Sissy," there had been growing growing in their hearts the red, red rose of romance the love betwixt man and maid of which poets tell knew that in that sweet, that sad, that wondrous eventide the rose had burst into glorious flower.
Satan's service is alluring it begins in pleasure and ends in sorrow "the dead are there!" Christ's service begins in duty and ends in delight "Blessed is the man who endureth temptation." The devil's path is like a forest road at eventide; it grows darker and darker until all is lost in the blackness of the night. Christ's path leads from darkness into light. "He is risen!"
Some cleaned their rifles, and others lost themselves in conjectures of the attack. At length, at eventide, the sweet-toned bell of the little cathedral rang to vespers, a gentle message of peace to war. Colonel Clark looked into my upturned face. "Davy, do you know what day this is?" he asked. "No, sir," I answered.
If my sympathies need quickening, my point of view adjusting, I have only to go down to Park Row at eventide, when the crowds are hurrying homeward and the City Hall clock is lighted, particularly when the snow lies on the grass in the park, and stand watching them awhile, to find all things coming right. It is Bob who stands by and watches with me then, as on that night.
Lovers sit on the grassy banks, children roll among the leaves, sylphs dance in every open, and out from between the branches lightly steps Orpheus, harp in hand, to greet the morn. Never is there a shadow of care in a Corot all is mellow with love, ripe with the rich gift of life, full of prayer and praise just for the rapture of drinking in the day grateful for calm, sweet rest and eventide.
And they laid hands on them, and put them in hold unto the next day: for it was now eventide. Howbeit many of them which heard the word believed; and the number of the men was about five thousand. And it came to pass on the morrow, that their rulers, and elders, and scribes,
"I have a messenger already on the spot, and so soon as the royal forces have gained the victory he will speed hither as fast as four legs can bring him; we shall probably hear by eventide." It is needless to say how every one panted for the decisive news. Ella and Alfred soon returned to the castle, and Redwald took his horse, and rode out, as he said, to meet the messenger.
All these things he thought over as, his first essential labours completed, he lay under the screen of the ridge and watched the sun dropping towards Guernsey in a miracle of eventide glories.
D'Aubigne: "The nineteenth century is called to resume the work which the sixteenth century was unable to accomplish." Fletcher: "Only He will come with more mercy, and will increase the light that shall be at eventide, according to his promise in Zech. 14:7.
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