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ONE day, I had been thinking about the terrors of the Great Flood, when / it seemed to me that I saw back through the long ages to that distant / day, as you look with a night-glass through the night to an illuminated / planet.
I saw an old man, venerable with the centuries by which we count the / lives of nations, not of men, yet vigorous with the vitality of one who / had still centuries to live. He stood on an inland plain, far from any / sea; yet above him rose the sides of a large ship. It had been finished / that day.