“Hast wept?” “The blossoms of the spring
I gathered every one.”
“But what fair deed can’st thou present?
Like light, one radiant beam?”
“I robbed no child of his fairy-tale,
No dreamer of his dream.”
—Anna McClure Sholl, Appleton’s.
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REALITIES INVISIBLE
The schoolboy writes these figures on his slate: 2+2=4, and says two and two make four. But the two and the two which he has written on the slate do not make the four which he has written on the slate. For both the twos are there unchanged, and the four also. The two and two that make four are in his head—invisible. The figures on the slate are not the realities, they are only symbols which interpret the realities, and the realities are invisible—Lyman Abbott, The Outlook.