A Jewish Legend

"When Adam and Eve were driven out of the garden," says the Talmud, "they wandered about disconsolate over the face of the earth. As the sun began to decline, they looked with fear at the diminution of the light, and felt a horror like death steal over their hearts. The light of heaven grew paler, and the wretched ones clasped one another in an agony of despair. Then all grew dark; and the unhappy ones fell on the earth, silent, and thought that God had withdrawn from them the light forever, and they spent the night in tears. But a beam of light began to rise over the eastern hills, after many hours of darkness, and the golden sun came back and dried the tears of Adam and Eve; and then they greeted it with cries of gladness, and said, 'Heaviness may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning;' this is a law God hath laid upon nature"