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Three men came to Love the Lord, asking a gift of his white fire, and
the gift was not denied. "Take it, keep it, use it!" said Love the Lord;
and they answered joyfully, "Yea, Lord, this will we do!"
Then the three fared forth on their way, the old way, and the new way,
and the only way; yet they went not together, but each by himself alone.
Presently one came to a dark valley, full of men who groped with their
hands, seeking the way, and finding it not, for they had no light; and
they moaned, and cried, "Oh! that we had light, to show us the way!"