“Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word;
For mine eyes have seen thy salvation.”
And yet Anna was the very apple of his eye. Of such fibre was the altruism of that rugged first growth.
CHAPTER V
Life! life! thou sea-fugue, writ from east to west,
Love, Love alone can pore
On thy dissolving score
Of harsh half-phrasings,
Blotted ere writ,
And double erasings