The Light-House Lamp. Tay

“Don’t you know why you, with all your
power, were unable to do anything against me?”

“No,” said they.

‘ Because,” said she, ‘‘ on my side is right, and
on yours wrong, and wrong cannot stand against
right. How much better it would be if you would
use your great power to help me in doing good.”

And at last, do you know, the wind and the
waves, listening to these words, began to feel very
badly for their wickedness. The waves shed tears
(at least, I suppose they were tears, as they were
very salt) and all through the night, the wind
sighed and moaned piteously round the light-
house, while the waves sobbed and kissed the
island below, in their sorrow. In the morning
they said:

“We will help you, dear little Lamp, and we
will try hard to be good, if you will show us how.”

This the Lamp gladly promised to do. And
the wind and the waves have kept their word, for
if a ship comes near those rocks in a storm, the
wind simply blows it by the dangerous place, and
I am happy to say there has never, never been a
wreck there.