The Certain Hour

The desire to write perfectly of beautiful happenings is as the saying runs old as the hills—and as immortal. Questionless there was many a serviceable brick wasted in Nineveh because finicky persons must needs be deleting here and there a phrase in favor of its cuneatic synonym; and it is not improbable that when the outworn sun expires in clinkers its final ray will gild such zealots tinkering with their style. Some few there must be in every age and every land of whom life claims nothing very insistently save that they write perfectly of beautiful happenings.