AFTER THE ARGUMENT.
A group of little children with their ways and chatter flow in,
Like welcome rippling water o'er my heated nerves and flesh.
FOR US TWO, READER DEAR.
Simple, spontaneous, curious, two souls interchanging,
With the original testimony for us continued to the last.
MEMORANDA
{Let me indeed turn upon myself a little of the light I have been so fond of casting on others.
Of course these few exceptional later mems are far, far short of one's concluding history or thoughts or life-giving—only a hap-hazard pinch of all. But the old Greek proverb put it, "Anybody who really has a good quality" (or bad one either, I guess) "has all." There's something in the proverb; but you mustn't carry it too far.
I will not reject any theme or subject because the treatment is too personal.