`` Oh , see here , if you 're going to interrupt and argue over everything , we 'll never get the story told , '' said Felix . `` Dry up , all of you , and let the Story Girl go on . '' We dried up , and the Story Girl went on . `` Zerah and Zulamith loved each other , just as mortals love , and this is forbidden by the laws of the Almighty . And because Zerah and Zulamith had so broken God 's law they were banished from His presence to the uttermost bounds of the universe . If they had been banished TOGETHER it would have been no punishment ; so Zerah was exiled to a star on one side of the universe , and Zulamith was sent to a star on the other side of the universe ; and between them was a fathomless abyss which thought itself could not cross . Only one thing could cross it -- and that was love . Zulamith yearned for Zerah with such fidelity and longing that he began to build up a bridge of light from his star ; and Zerah , not knowing this , but loving and longing for him , began to build a similar bridge of light from her star . For a thousand thousand years they both built the bridge of light , and at last they met and sprang into each other 's arms . Their toil and loneliness and suffering were all over and forgotten , and the bridge they had built spanned the gulf between their stars of exile . `` Now , when the other archangels saw what had been done they flew in fear and anger to God 's white throne , and cried to Him , '' ` See what these rebellious ones have done ! They have built them a bridge of light across the universe , and set Thy decree of separation at naught . Do Thou , then , stretch forth Thine arm and destroy their impious work . ' `` They ceased -- and all heaven was hushed . Through the silence sounded the voice of the Almighty . '' ` Nay , ' He said , ` whatsoever in my universe true love hath builded not even the Almighty can destroy . The bridge must stand forever . ' `` And , '' concluded the Story Girl , her face upturned to the sky and her big eyes filled with starlight , `` it stands still . That bridge is the Milky Way . '' `` What a lovely story , '' sighed Sara Ray , who had been wooed to a temporary forgetfulness of her woes by its charm .
The rest XXXXX us came back to earth , feeling that we had been wandering among the hosts of heaven .
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