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THE INWARD EYE. 49
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and freedom from carebut let it be kept within due limits . When once it trenches upon , and interferes with restrained our practicality but
—our life workit is harmfuland must be ; use it aright , and it , is a blessed , , a soothing comforter , potent in
its And healing now , and come beloved with me in its into operations my picture . gallery , oh reader ,
thee and let for me a mom speak , ent to into thee of sanctum its many show treasures th . ee . one I will or two admit of my
, their the paintings huessoftened that adorn by distance it , and and teach regret thee , I liow am , often as I gaze able on to
occasions sh forget ine ! the Th . , " . er paltry Disliking e are particular trouble much of scenes to our -day far cold that by , I revelling ni reserve pping into , for in benumbing their particular
sunwinters belief . , On I love one to of cheat our dull mys , elf gloomy as November as possible days , a when contrary the fog in its outside deadening is pressin slimy g close fingers to my and windows blotting , clasp out ing the everything external
reserved world with for its one shroud , of the - bri like htest folds , , fairest then , yes pictures then is in the my moment gallery .
I close my eyes , lean back g in , my chair , and a few earnest efforts revive the scene witnessed years agobut which is for
ever ineffaceable to my mental vision . , I am in the quaint old city of Cologne , and suddenly It is open
day my of the of eyes loveliest lorious , awakened rich mornings b full y a sunshin flood of summer of e lig such ht , the in as my commencement in these room . days of of one old a
g , , , my seem age window and s the weakness ablest and step descri I upon can tion hardl the how y < balcony expect pale _.. and to How see lifeless again faint . and the I most open poor
brilliant word-painting , p as I , recall that vision of almost unthe earthl Rhine y grandeur that constant and beauty restless ! Close stream below ever flowing my window —flowing runs
, , , — But flowing this morning , to lose it itself is a in river the of deep molten blue gold wat , ers for of yonder the ocean rises . and life to the
now the Seven sun slumbering Mountain in his strength s world ( die , sieben the beneath harbinger Gebirge him . ) of clad To activit the in y ri a g li ht ght I see robe the of
hi mis her t , which and hi slowl her y in falls the from heavens -them . as Suprem the king e amongst of day them appears all
stands g the Drachenfels g with its solemn , deserted ruin , suggestis ing living vivid and _ideas active of decay , The and few desolation clouds , that in the fleck face the of sk all y that are
. laved all the in intermediate the purple and hues crim that son tints of be morning seen in , the and ri vary led in pp
radiance of a dove's neck . I gaz may e again and again on the deserted sun ; I bath ruin e — my the soul rushing in their , restles beauty s , and golden grandeur river— , the and imperial another VOL . XII . D
The Inward Eye. 49
THE INWARD EYE . 49
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1863, page 49, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091863/page/49/
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