Katherine Merritte Snyder Yates

“ And once again they met, and one brother said, "I am almost ready to go to work again for men, as we used to do; for love has come again into my heart and the bitter taste has left it, and I no longer hate even myself." ”

“ If you must look over your brother's fence, don't."
"Oh," said his brother, "at this rate we shall never stop. Let us put our hands over our mouths and run—in just one moment the elepaio bird will call."
And so, laughing, they clapped their hands over their mouths and ran toward their cleft; but suddenly a gleam of moonlight flicked across the path of one. He stopped and struggled for a moment with the hand over his mouth, and then called out: "I've got to say it—it will come out: Love shine is sunshine, other shine is moonshine;" and dived into his cleft. ”

“ It was night when the little Menehunes crept forth again, and all was still, Each heaved a wee sigh of relief when he had glanced carefully about and found no human being near, and then they climbed to the top of their huge, crumbling rock and sat there with their hands clasped about their knees, looking out across the velvet-black sea streaked with flickering lines leading toward great stars which swung in the indigo void above. ”

“ Next day, before the dawn, the Menehunes met again—each eager with his memory tablet.
"Listen now!" cried one; "here is what I have: Do not try to see yourself as others see you—try to see yourself as God sees you, and then know that the real man sees with his eyes."
"It is good," said his brother. "It is wise. Mine is not so wise, for it has not so much of love. In fact, I do not think that it has any love at all in it ”

“ And when they came again, one set forth this: "If it seem difficult to look at life in the big, close-at-hand, because the detail mountains seem to obstruct the view; then we must get altitude, so that these mountains, no matter how near, may dwindle to mole-hills at our feet, and our horizon stretch beyond the ends of the earth." ”

“ And one day the two little Menehunes were awakened in the brilliant forenoon, something totally new for Menehunes; for they are abroad doing their good deeds onl from dark until dawn, and any tas unfinished when the elepaio bird calls at daybreak, will never be finished unless the mortals, for whom it was begun, should finish it for themselves. And so when these two little Menehunes suddenly found themselves broad awake in the radiant morning light, they were very much astonished, and they crept toward the opening of their cleft and peered out. ”

“ Mine is of altitude, like that which you brought only yesterday. Altitude is a pretty good thing. If there are clouds, don't stay under them; they may be misty to pass through; but the light upon them from above is wonderful. ”