The boy stood sadly by a hedge, and peeped over into the Lost Paradise.

A white-robed angel standing by the Tree of Knowledge saw the child and was sorry for him.

He broke off a branch from the tree, handed it over to the boy, and said: "Here is something for you out of Paradise.

Plant the bough in the ground.

It will take root and grow, and produce fresh seeds until the throne of the Messiah is built out of its trunk." "O, God! where is the trunk, and where is the Messiah's throne ?" sighed Mary, and she moved away.
When after her tiring journey she reached the town one morning, she found the people streaming along the roads and streets in one direction.