FROM A NEW ENGLAND HILLSIDE. 75 



human heart touches heart, even though 

 tongue be mute, and there may seem to be 

 between one and another a great gulf fixed. 

 And so though we stand in the awful 

 presence of the unknown, and looking 

 backward see nought but an impenetrable 

 shade, and looking forward, behold only 

 a golden haze ; though there be days of 

 pain and doubt and sorrow ; though the 

 grasshopper may sometimes seem a bur 

 den ; yet shall the warm blood of the life 

 that is fill the veins, and health and peace 

 will come in the frank acceptance of the 

 experiences that are sent, while the torrent 

 is tamed, the winds are tempered, and the 

 rough places are smoothed before those 

 that are to come after. 



APRIL 15, 1894. 



