![]() ![]() And the conscience shall be thrust down the light of life shall not be extinguished, but be put under a bushel, to be preserved for a generation that will live by it again, in some day not yet come and how it will come, and when it will come, we shall not think about at all. And our lives will shrink, but they shall be the lives of superior beings and we shall live with fear, but at least it will not be a fear of the unknown. Geographically isolated from his brother John, his sister Gertrude, and his son Absalom, Stephen becomes worried when he stops hearing from them. Set in South Africa, it follows a Christian reverend named Stephen Kumalo, who lives in a Zulu village called Ndotsheni. ![]() We shall be careful, and knock this off our lives, and knock that off our lives, and hedge ourselves about with safety and precaution. Cry, the Beloved Country is a 1948 work of historical fiction by Alan Paton. We shall forego the coming home drunken through the midnight streets, and the evening walk over the star-lit veld. We shall live from day to day, and put more locks on the doors, and get a fine fierce dog when the fine fierce bitch next door has pups, and hold on to our handbags more tenaciously and the beauty of the trees by night, and the raptures of lovers under the stars, these things we shall forego. ![]()
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