GOOD NIGHT! AND FAREWELL! 75 



linal Good Night ! to all its. loveliness. It was more 

 beautiful, if possible, than ever before. We had eome to 

 know and love its features like those of a dear friend. 

 AVe had seen its face in all moods and phases of feeling. 

 To-night it was placid. quiet and sad. we thought. or was 

 that a reflection of our own emotions? As the evening 

 shades crept steadily and heavily down from the moun- 

 tains, and then the full orbed moon arose and dispelled 

 them again, and we lingered, reluctant to say the parting 

 word h. the lovely water with the homespun name, we, 

 hovering between two worlds, the depth above and the 

 depth below, and looked abroad on forest and mountain 

 and lake, in their supernatural glory of light and shade, 

 and felt as who dues not when bidding farewell? that 

 \\e nii^lit never behold them a-ain. who shall blame us if, 

 for that moment, we ideali/.ed all this charm and beauty 

 and mystery, and gave it a human soul, and if we stood 

 on the shore, at last, and waved a silent adieu with emotions 

 like those a lover teel- a> he bid- the maid he loves a long 

 farewell ' 



.Many a time, that e\ eningscenein its surpassing serenity 

 and loveliness has come to the heart of the Neophyte, in 

 his slumbers |,\ night, but. his waking vision has never 

 -ince looked upon the beautiful water, to which he that 

 ni-jhl silently said "Good Night, forever!" 



The noisy morning came, the bright, strong, sensible sun, 

 and the preparations fur our departure, which consumed 

 nearly all the forenooon. It was surprising how much 

 packing we had to do, considering what an impudently 



