Year: 1859

miracle of earth and heaven,


Thou living breath of happiness,


Fresh breeze of the divinest bliss


To lfe's woe-strcken deserts given,


Thou heart that thr0bbest through creation,


or gods and men, thou onsolation.-rEGXER


But we mean by this high and glorious
love which really deserves to be called


The fresh breeze of divnest bliss


To fe's wOe-stricken deserts given


We are not speaking of its many limitations,
or of that dwnrfish race to which people
in mistake give the name of loves, aud
who fly about sho otiDg their arrows at ran
dom; butterflies which futter from flower
to flower; Loke's fire. which kindIes shay
ings, burns up quickly and soon goes out.
The house-warming of which people talk
in Norway, the child Of habit and sluggish
ness; the catcb-hy which is viscous in the
spring, but dries up during the heat of sum
mer; igneS-fntui, which dance upon life's
swampy fields gmmer in the dark, hut
vanish like vapor at sunrise; all these and
many other symbols Of love have their pro-
totypeS in life yesterday as to-day; and we
will let them live their little life, if they
will Only keep to the night, and not give
themselves out for any more than they real
ly are, not set up any claim to the name of
true lore.


True love loves the eternal in its object,
and the nobler the object the more the
sacred fame increases, feeding itself with
esteem, approval, admiration, divine and
human joy over the good and the estimable
in the beloved, sometimes also u divine
over his deficiencies, when at
the same time the soul is noble and the de-
sire only after good. Happy thou who
lowest nobler object yes, even if thon
art not beloved in return; thy whole life
will be ennobled and enlarged thereby,
thou thyself wilt grow by thy love, grow
mp in heaven, ami there be united with thy
beloved in the bosom of eternal love. III
however, thou lowest thus, and art thus
loved in return by thy beloved!-


Thus did Yngve and Hertha love each
other with all their souls best power. The
more intimately they became acquainted,
the more pure and inward was the JOY
which they experienced in each other; the
more they felt themselves to be deeply uni-
ted. But the serious character of their
the subjects which furnished
them with conversation aud thought kept
in long abeyance the magical enchanting
sentiment which the poet calls


The heart which thrObs through all creation,
which throughout all nature clothes in won
derful beauty object for object, which makes
the sea luminous, gives fragrance to the
flower, causes the birds to sing and adorn
ho
aud which makes one human being see in
bis fellow human being, not an equal but
being of superhuman charm and superhu-
man power, whose mere step voice make
the pulses beat with wonderful joy, aud |
whose silent presence even changes the |
whole existence to a festival.


Yngve aud Hertha had begun a lea que
Of friendship of the most Spartan-like Sc
verify, which should exclude every weaker
aud common feeling. The inexpressible |
charm in each others being, the grace, the
fascination, awoke love which stole upon |
them like summer iuto the bosom of spring,
as the sunbeam steals into the folded bud
and opens it for new life If Hertha in
ler intercourse with Yngve had always
continued TO be the proud woman, whose
words were keenly causric, she would still
lave continued to be an object Of esteem
md also Of admiration, but she would mol
nave become dear to his inmost soul. The
,fEectionale aud womauly heart, however,
which consolidated the very essence of hei
being, had, during her Intercourse with him
more aud more revealed itself The uprgh |
aud noble disposition, the clear insight into
truth, which She continually saw il Yngye
the manly gentleness which was the priucl'l