hen he intends the verb that he escapes
in the passage that adorns my Essay, should be supplied by a pulsation in
the breast of Eve:

'yet loss of thee
Would never--from my heart.'

Would never?--would never be torn, out-rooted, obliterated, banished,
extinguished, forgotten, diminished, obscured, from his heart. The throb
of her spirit is to supply the word, or mould the thought, and vivify the
pause so as to satisfy her full affection to its utmost contentment and
desire. _This_ is marriage. This is attainment to that state of more
perfect existence which terrestrial life procures for the soul of man,
never thenceforth in all its future changes to be lost. The incorporeal
mingling, the mystical union of two varied emanations of life; as Light
and Heat intermarry in their offset and passage from the sun; and Truth
and Love from the breast of THE INEFFABLE!

How can I live without thee! how forego
Thy sweet converse and love so dearly join'd
To live again in these wild woods forlorn?
Should GOD create another Eve and I
Another rib afford, yet loss of thee
Would never from my heart: no, no, I feel
The link of nature draw me.
Bone of my bone thou art and from thy state
Mine never shall be parted, bliss or woe.

And shall the passage of one such soul across the mere brook of Death
dissolve affiances so deep, so latent, and so pure as this? This Life of
Life, is it to be so suddenly quenched in man, and man himself continue to
exist? Shall the soul that lingers here still retaining its identity lose
that which has chiefly formed for it a distinctive being? Or entering into
a happier state of existence shall it be dispossessed of all that treasure
of recollection and delight on which its joys and hopes have been so
largely founded? These long remembrances of mutual beneficence and good,
these intertwining and interwoven affections, and the unbounded and
mingling love of their common offspring, shall these all perish and the
soul itself yet be styled immortal? Or,--shall the first-gone spirit meet
its arriving mate upon the border of that further shore, bless it with the
radiant welcome of celestial companionship and guidance, and lead it on to
higher virtue in a happier state, as it hath beamed upon it and in part
educated it on Earth?----Doubt this not, my Heart! Doubt this not, my
Soul!

JOHN WATERS.

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