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"But swift or slow the days will pass, The longest night will have a morn, And to each day is duly born A night from Time's inverted glass. " -- _Aminta._
Five years have passed away, -- five long years. Five times the Acadien farmers have sown their seeds. Five times they have gathered their crops. Five times summer suns have smiled upon the Bay, and five times winter winds have chilled it. And five times five changes have there been in Sleeping Water, though it is a place that changes little.