Simplicity is the character of the spring of life, costliness becomes its autumn; but a neatness and purity, like that of the snow-drop or lily of the valley, is the peculiar fascination of beauty, to which it lends enchantment, and gives what amiability is to the mind.

Wondrous strong are the spells of fiction.

In ourselves are triumph and defeat.

Being all fashioned of the self-same dust, let us be merciful as well as just

All things are symbols.

Look, then, into thine heart, and write! Yes, into Life's deep stream! All forms of sorrow and delight, All solemn Voices of the Night, That can soothe thee, or affright, - Be these henceforth thy theme. (excerpt from "Voices of the Night")

It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.