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The oak rose before me like a pillar of darkness; and overhead the heartsome stars were set in the face of the night.
I have had to mutilate the dialect much, so that it might be comprehensible to you; but I think the sentiment will keep, even through a change of words, something of the heartsome ring of encouragement that it had for me: and that from a man cleaning a byre!