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receive their hallowed touch.

Grandfather and grandmother, and the garden, and the river, and the
song of the robin in the appletree, and all the myriad experiences of
the boy-time, are glorified now as never before. In the halcyon Then
they were but incidents of the day; in the mellowed Now we learn the
truth of them, and catch their wondrous meaning.

The flower blossoms are gleaming as colorful and fragrant today as they
did in the Long Ago. The bird-songs are as tuneful now as they were
then. The sun is shining just as golden and as genial this moment as it
did when we sat on the beams of the mill-race and felt on our faces the
spray of tumbling waters sun-warmed in the air.

We need only open our hearts and let the sunshine in!

And Youth and Age, blended and rejoicing, will go hand in hand along
the path of life to its far goal bestowing upon us all the freshness of
the dew-damp morning, all the vigor of the strenuous noon, and all the
peace and calm assurance of the star-lit night.

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