The book of life beneath the [11]tree, a [12]jug of wine, a loaf of bread, and thou, oh Memory, well stored with sacred lore,
What wilderness of life doth not then a paradise become?
[11] The Tree of Knowledge.
[12] The jug of wine here denotes the life of opportunities, the loaf of bread experience, with which we wisdom learn and thus memory perfect.
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Sigh not in vain for what can never be, the glories of the morn depart as wanes the day.
So with each succeeding race to come the Christian Heaven or the Heathen Hell will but live in the dead words of memory.
Every generation a higher conception grasps of Creation's Laws the cause divine of life.
So take the real, no matter what 'tis styled, whether god, jehovah, christ, or buddha, djaina, brahm.