first
daughter. Now you know why I loved your Marie, and prolonged her life
from day to day. She was the only being that linked my heart to this
life. Bear life as I have borne it. Lose not a day in useless
lamentation. Help mankind whenever you can. Love them and thank God
that you have seen and known and loved on this earth such a human heart
as hers--and that you have lost it."

"_As God will_." said I, and we parted for life.

* * * * *

And days and weeks and months and years have flown. Home is a stranger
to me, and a foreign land is my home. But her love remains with me, and
as a tear drops into the ocean, so has her love dropped into the living
ocean of humanity and pervades and embraces millions--millions of the
"strange people" whom I have so loved from childhood.

* * * * *

Only on quiet summer days like this, when one in the green woods has
nature alone at heart, and knows not whether there are human beings.
without, or he is living entirely alone in the world, then there is a
stir in the graveyard of memory, the dead thoughts, rise again, the full
omnipotence of love returns to the heart and streams out from that
beautiful being who once looked upon me with her deep unfathomable eyes.
Then it seems as if the love for the millions were lost in the love for
the one, my good angel, and my thoughts are dumb in the presence of the
incomprehensible enigma of endless and everlasting love.

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