NOTE A. P. 5.
"But our path is not backwards but onwards"--This thought is expressed very beautifully in lines as wise and true as they are poetical:
"Grieve not for these: nor dare lament
That thus from childhood's thoughts we roam:
Not backward are our glances bent,
But forward to our Father's home.
Eternal growth has no such fears,
But freshening still with seasons past,
The old man clogs its earlier years,