. Beautiful gems from American writers and the lives and portraits of our favorite authors . want, and in pain, and familiarwith prison-bars, and the damp, weeping walls ofdungeons. Oh, I have looked with wonder uponthose who, in sorrow and privation, and bodily dis-comfort, and sickness, which is the shadow of death,have worked right on to the accomplishment of theirgreat purposes; toiling much, enduring much, ful-filling much ;—and then, with shattered nerves, andsinews all unstrung, have laid themselves down in thegrave, and slept the sleep of death,—and the worldtalks 0^ them, while they s
. Beautiful gems from American writers and the lives and portraits of our favorite authors . want, and in pain, and familiarwith prison-bars, and the damp, weeping walls ofdungeons. Oh, I have looked with wonder uponthose who, in sorrow and privation, and bodily dis-comfort, and sickness, which is the shadow of death,have worked right on to the accomplishment of theirgreat purposes; toiling much, enduring much, ful-filling much ;—and then, with shattered nerves, andsinews all unstrung, have laid themselves down in thegrave, and slept the sleep of death,—and the worldtalks 0^ them, while they sleep ! It would seem, indeed, as if all their sufferings hadbut sanctified them! As if the death-angel, in pass-ing, had touched fchem with the hem of his garment,and made them holy ! As if the hand of disease hadbeen stretched out over them only to make the signof the cross upon their souls ! And as in the sunsecUpse we can behold the great stars shining in theheavens, so in this life-eclipse have these men beheldthe lights of the great eternity, burning solemnly antforever! -<,. RALPH WALDO EMERSON AND HIS BROOK FARM FRIENDS.
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