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THE RECORD OF A VANISHED LIFE. 257
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My old life in heart has missed , and very success , very and weary succumbed . I am to ready failure to . be I gone have .
not attained to happiness , ; but I have , at least , grasped blessedness . I have fought a hard fight , if not in a life good h one .
heaviness compassed Sorrows , and me and round the I trust shadows for I many have of , man death learned y — years of their . death I lesson have borne and — shall th av eir e , of mind
reap their joy . I die in peace and faith—in the peace shall over which the know passeth fear the of all meaning death understanding . and When — these in the of lines the faith meet life which which your triump I eye have , hs I
ledand now describein human purpose error and in mortal blindness . I know , that all doubts , will shortly be made clear to me ; I feel
that and perfection happines will s elevate lete my imp Beyond erfection the ; and shor my e of trust the is black sure ,
river before , my those me— whom await me I comp have . There loved . there so well shall in be life no — more those sep who aratio went n ,
no narrow -more sorrowful error , no more lifewhich sin , and , seemed no more to our sorrow earthl ; and y apprehen the poor - ,
human fulness sion so , sympathy of full bliss of misery and which the , , so rap full ture of towards of failure success , may . Partl Herbert yet y know from as the the the
yearns you , , leave one being to your , living yet young , whom life best a chart I love of — the partl cours y from e which a desire record I have to of
sailed overand have finished—I leave this imperfect may iny Herb life be ert ) . , the as , Receive you spirit read of it it the in , that old love uncl you , as e are it is console not is near g alone iven you . , Farewell , but and Believe that with ! , ( if you too it , ,
to help to encourage , to comfort , and . I the hew to whom so frequent allusion is made
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me and personall experience y , it was has left seemed . Intended to me as to the be worthy Record of " was a wider , for
induce application _^ me , to and give to possess it publicity a general . for When interest writing alone . These it , but the reasons if dear his ,
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constellation sys Centaur , say . It takes light , from this star , light
The Record Of A Vanished Life. 257
THE RECORD OF A VANISHED LIFE . 257
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1864, page 257, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061864/page/41/
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