Memories

an gather
again the withered and scattered leaves of this rose, and vivify them
with fresh perfume? The flames, in which the Greeks enveloped the
bodies of the departed for the purpose of destruction; the flames, into
which the ancients cast everything once dearest to the living, are now
the securest repository for these relics. With trembling fear the
surviving friend reads the leaves no eye has ever seen, save those now
so firmly closed, and if, after a glance, too hasty even to read them,
he is convinced these letters and leaves contain nothing which men deem
important, he throws them quickly upon the glowing coals--a flash and
they are gone.

From such flames the following leaves have been saved. They were at
first intended only for the friends of the deceased, yet they have
found friends even among strangers, and, since it is so to be, may
wander anew in distant lands. Gladly would the compiler have furnished
more, but the leaves are too much scattered and mutilated to be
rearranged and given complete.




FIRST MEMORY.

Childhood has its secrets and its mysteries; but who can tell or who
can explain them! We have all roamed through this silent
wonder-wood--we have all once opened our eyes in blissful astonishment,
as the beautiful reality of life overflowed our souls. We knew not
where, or who, we were--the whole world was ours and we were the whole
world's. That was an infinite life--without beginning and without end,
without rest and without pain. In the heart, it was as clear as the
spring heavens, fresh as the violet's perfume--hushed and holy as a
Sabbath morning.

What disturbs this God's-peace of the child? How can this unconscious
and innocent existence ever cease? What dissipates the rapture of this
individuality and universality, and suddenly leaves us solitary and
alone in a clouded life?

Say not, with serious face. It is sin! Can even a child sin? Say
rather, we know not, and must only resign ourselves to it.

Is it sin, which makes the bud

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