And the man with the strange wheel answered:
"I am the maker of rainbows. I am the alchemist of hope. To me November is always May, tears are always laughter that is going to be, and darkness is light misunderstood. The sad heart makes its own sorrow, the happy heart makes its own joy. The harvest is made by the harvestman—and there is nothing hard or black or weary that is not waiting for the magic touch of hope to become soft as a spring flower, bright as the morning star, and valiant as a young runner in the dawn."
But the village of Twelve-trees was not to be convinced by such words made out of moonshine. Only the children believed in the laughing old man with the strange wheel.
"Rainbows!" mocked their fathers and mothers—"rainbows! Much good are rainbows to a starving village."
The old maker of rainbows took their taunts in silence, and made ready to go his way; but as he started once more along the road he said, with a cynical smile:
"Have you never heard that there is a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow?..."
"A pot of gold?" cried out the whole village of Twelve-trees.
"Yes," he answered, "a pot of gold! I know where it is, and I am going to find it."
And he moved on his way.
Then the villagers looked at one another, and said over and over again, "A pot of gold!"
And they took cloaks and walking-staves and set out to accompany the old visitor; but when they reached the outskirts of the village there was no sign of him. He had mysteriously disappeared.
But the children never forgot the rainbows.
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