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........... If I may be very absurd, nay very
immoral, to be teazed [sic] by trifles; but alas!
while you remain in the dust, reason as
you may, it will annoy you; and
there is no help for it, but to retire into
a higher and grassier region, where
the sultry road is visible from afar ...
We must go in contemplation out of
life ere we can see how its troubles
subside, and are lost like evanes-
cent waves, in the deeps of eterni-
ty and the immensity of God.
A mind that can make this
migration from the scense [scene] by
which it is surrounded, is remov-
ed from all vain strife of will,
and gains its tranquility without
an effort; feels no difficulty in
being gentle and serene, but ra-
ther wonders that is [it] could ever be
tempted from into pure repose. How
[crossed out] (would it of) welcome would it
often be to many a child of anx-
iety and toil, to be suddenly trans-
ferred transferred [sic] from "the heat
and sin of the city, the restless-
ness and worry of the mart,
to the midnight garden or the
mountain tops." And like refresh-
ment does a high faith, with its
infinite prospects ever open to the
heart, afford to the worn and
weary; no laborious travels are
needed for the devout mind;
for it carries within it Alpine