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conscientious man, who is without reserve
and guile.
The abode of the first man, in his
innocence, was a garden : in a garden, among
the lovely chUdren of spring, we again find
paradise; here we dream of the bhss of
innocence, here soothe tumultuous desires,
and a gentle longing fillsthe heart. The
lake-rose swims and bathes in the moist
element, which, fertUising, pervades the earth,
and lifts up its crown to the sun, like a clear,
calm eye.
Who thus can swim in the fulness
of universal life, washed pure from all selfishness,
and thus look up, unshrinking, with pure
eye?
Lovely, bright, radiant flowers ! are ye not
like stars, which the Creator has scattered to
iUumine and adorn the dark earth 1 Are ye
not as heavenly messengers, who have come
down upon the sunbeams, to bring us tidings
of a world in which aU blooms in beauty,
rapture, peace 1
Therefore is it that the
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