A RIVER THE EMBLEM OF HUMAN LIFE. 19 



deep, cool and unimpassioned mind is freed 

 from its fever, its troubles, bubbles, noise 

 and foam. And, above all, the sources of a 

 river, which may be considered as belong- 

 ing to the atmosphere, and its termination 

 in the ocean, may be regarded as imaging 

 the divine origin of the -human mind, and 

 its being ultimately returned to, and lost in, 

 the Infinite and Eternal Intelligence from 

 which it originally sprung. 



