Ah, my David, I wonder not you long for a king of the
sword and the arrow. Revenge is ever the dream of the oppressed. But
I have dreamed of a greater king."
"Tell me who?"
"He would be like this love in me," said Vergilius. "If it were to go
abroad--if it were only to find the hearts of the mighty--what, think
you, would happen?"
"Ay, if it were to go from friend to friend and from neighbor to
neighbor," said the young Jew, "it would indeed conquer the world."
"And there would be neither war nor injustice."
"Tell me," said David. "Are there many lovers like you in Rome?"
"Some half a score that I have heard of, and I doubt not there be many."
"'Tis the candle of the Lord--the preparation of the heart of man,"
said David. "I do believe his arrow shall be that of love."
"This feeling in me has kindled a great desire," said Vergilius. "I
burn for knowledge."
Then said the young Jew: "Let us find my kinsman, Zacharias--a priest
of holy life and great learning. Through his aged wife a miracle has
been accomplished.
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