Year: 1877

water lilies float its bosom in thcr aabaster
beauty. and although silence reisns In tho deep blue
st the steamlet sings Of the brook at bomc and its
wild melody makes tho heart happy. In the dell.
poetess of humanity dwells, like elvish queen,
bathing ON dcwy leaf, her limbs white AZ
new fallen flake or snow and her robes woven In
pure light from the Her low voice buzzes In the
music OF the bee; her temple 10 gilt in the golden sun
home at night The ravens hoarse voice. the hollow
croakng OF the frog, the shrekng OWL the groaning
OF tho mandrake, the roaring wind which shakes tne
Ms human TO him as the zephyr In the grove and the
murmur OF The inspired nvuet The solitary man
may walk through green grass or cornheds, may
climb mountains or push through the tangled Forest
may thread lrsckess gidc his skin over mys
ferrous lakes, heng everywhere alone yet not alone,
ior both tho attributes and felowships of man are
with him. However sequestered, thero Is sibyi IN
the grot; the drowsy waterfall Is uneful to his ear


the solemn shade soothes him to while the
sombre cypress and the fitting bat conspire to crowd
solitude with welcome society. In the words OF Rob-
eftsOn-


The fisherman on the ocean alone at night Is not
are arising heavon ut home tor his safety. The


traveller Is not alone. when the iaccs which Will greet
him on his arrival seem TO beam upon him as he
trudges on. Tho solitary student not alone when
iocls that human hearts Will respond TO the truths
which no y preparing 70 aaarsss 20 'ncm Saa & ,n,s
says "Ye shall leave me alone Tor to Him tho des-
''lhe home Of God, and the mountain top tho
very gate OF heaven Then therc is another sort Of
lonesomenoss Of which IT would seem that He could
not possibly pc partaker. aliudo to that solitude
which faniiarlscs the mind with its own actinss,
which necessary to right thinking, and the arrest
OF pernicous associations The isolation OF some
haunted tower the lracgicss gloom OF some catacomb,
the Gifted side OF somo dizzy alp, or the waste about
tue rim OF somc yawnng crater are not the most
dreaded SOLITUDE, for these are tho handiworks
OF God. Tho most terrible desolations OF
solitude are the maddenn. cells which lic
between the walls built by the hands Of man.
That IL solitude, indeed. whom vico dooms man 10
the prison dungeon, whore sentiment can create
voico but that OF guilty conscience and where no
expression OF acS read but that Of CHASTITY despair
This the solitude which makes tho darkness OF death
visible and prompts the criminal 10 sock refuge IN
set murder. The isolation Of human spirit In this
order OF solitary confinement Is moro than death.
living there buried up Ia silent sepulchre OF
stone 70 bury his very soul while breathing where
another heart does not Deal but lonely spirit tor
itself by clash OF passions aud faculties with
out aim object There the tongue Is chained, tho
eye fastened the door, while d0loul iorebodings
draw forth tho piercing sigh and the deep groan, TIL
the motion Of mouse would startle the cuprt INTO
dismal ailicti0n. The separation Of q man from his
sympathies Is doath and works rapid destruction
TO the powers OF both soul and body. man without
hope will become both cripple IN frame and an ldiot
In mind, Tor brain nerve arc not only robbed OF tner
natural stimulus but have become tho fountain OF
ag0nlzing sensations.