# The Atlantic Monthly Volume 10 No 59 September 1862 A Magazine

Author: Unknown

Genre: Public Domain

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: Local public-domain TXT source

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## Summary

What kind of sword, do you think, was that which old Christian had in that famous fight of his with Apollyon, long ago? He cut the fiend to the marrow with it, you remember, at last; though the battle went hardly with him, too, for a time. Some of his blood, Banyan says, is on the stones of the valley to this day. That is a vague record of the combat between the man and the dragon in that strange little valley, with its perpetual evening twilight and calm, its meadows crusted with lilies, its herd-boy with his quiet song, close upon the precincts of hell. It fades back, the valley and the battle, dim enough, from the sober freshness of this summer morning. Look out of the window here, at...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-atlantic-monthly-volume-10-no-59-september-1862-a-magazine-793aa799/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-atlantic-monthly-volume-10-no-59-september-1862-a-magazine-793aa799/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-atlantic-monthly-volume-10-no-59-september-1862-a-magazine-793aa799/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-atlantic-monthly-volume-10-no-59-september-1862-a-magazine-793aa799/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-atlantic-monthly-volume-10-no-59-september-1862-a-magazine-793aa799/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-atlantic-monthly-volume-10-no-59-september-1862-a-magazine-793aa799/chapters/3/index.md)