Yet those who live would
scarcely consider that I am among the living,--and I am
isolated, as you say.
'My dear--, all is well; all has helped me to decipher the
great poem of the universe. I can hardly describe to you the
happiness which floods my solitary hours. My actual life is
yet much clogged and impeded, but I have at last got me
an oratory; where I can retire and pray. With your letter,
vanished a last regret. You did not act or think unworthily.
It is enough. As to the cessation of our confidential inter
course, circumstances must have accomplished that long ago; my
only grief was that you should do it with your own free will,
and for reasons that I thought unworthy. I long to honor you,
to be honored by you. Now we will have free and noble thoughts
of one another, and all that is best of our friendship shall
remain.'
II.
CONVERSATION.--SOCIAL INTERCOURSE.
"Be thou what thou singly art, and personate only thyself.
Swim smoothly in the stream of thy nature, and live but one
man."
SIR THOMAS BROWNE.
"Ah, how mournful look in letters
Black on white, the words to me,
Which from lips of thine cast fetters
Bound the heart, or set It free.
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