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Quotation from Christ Legends by Selma Lagerlöf

“The bees and the lilies have requited his good deeds,”

Selma Lagerlöf (spoken by The Roman soldier)

Christ Legends, Bethlehem's Children, trans. Velma Swanston Howard (1908)

Portrait of Selma Lagerlöf

In the desert cave the soldier, sword drawn over the sleeping Child, remembers how the Child once saved bees and lilies, and begins to relent.

Citation: "The bees and the lilies have requited his good deeds," — Selma Lagerlöf, Christ Legends, Bethlehem's Children, trans. Velma Swanston Howard (1908). (id christ-legends-q8)

Portrait: Atelje Jaeger - Selma Lagerlöf 1928, Atelier Jaeger, Public domain.

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