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　　for it.

　　Then it was put upon a

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　　turning wheel, and turned around until it seemed as if it must fly into a thousand pieces. A strange power pressed and molded it, and through all the dizziness and pain it felt that it was taking a new

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　　.

　　Then an unknown hand put it into an oven, and

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　　fires were burning about it. But the clay held itself together, in the confidence of a great future.

　　At last the baking was finished. The clay was

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　　upon a board, in the cool air. The suffering was passed. The reward was at hand.

　　Then the clay saw the reward of all its

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　　and pain, – a common flower-pot, straight and ugly. It felt that it was not

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　　for a king’s house, nor for a palace of art. Many days it passed in

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　　.

　　But presently it was set in a greenhouse, where the sunlight fell warm upon it, and day by day as it waited, something was changing within it – a new hope. Still it was

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　　, not knowing what the new hope meant.

　　But one day the clay was carried into a great church. All the people looked towards it because it carried a royal lily as white as snow, which was

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