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Then he said , `` Should he answer you and say , ` What do I care ! What are coves and mountain tops to me ? Gold is real , and the power to crush men within my hand ' ; tell him no further . `` But if by some chance he should listen , then , say this one thing to him , clearly in the ear , that he may not fail to hear it : ` The morning may break grey , and the midday be dark and stormy ; but the glory of the evening 's sunset may wash out for ever the remembrance of the morning 's dullness , and the darkness of the noon . So that all men shall say , ` Ah , for the beauty of that day ! ' -- For the stream that has once descended there is no path upwards . -- It is never too late for the soul of a man . '