256 THE FOUNTAIN. 



humanity, it reaches only to the highest point of finite power, 

 and falls back broken to the earth from whence it rose ; — yet, 

 in its very fall, giving out freshness, and in its renewed aspira- 

 tions, teaching hope, and trust, and perseverance in high 

 things to those who watch its seeming aimlessness and wasted 

 strength. 



THE END. 



