lie sadly in the cold ground, un- 

 der a flowering elder-tree, in a 

 corner of the garden. 



II 



Man loves the dog, but how- 

 much more ought he to love it 

 if he considered, in the inflexible 

 harmony of the laws of nature, 

 the sole exception, which is that 

 love of a being that succeeds in 

 piercing, in order to draw closer 

 to us, the partitions, every else- 

 where impermeable, that separate 



