Alas! Never Had I Loved Him So

A Depressing And Difficult Passage Has Prefaced Every Page I Have Turned In Life.

I See At Intervals The Glance Of A Curious Sort Of Bird Through The Close Set Bars Of A Cage: A Vivid, Restless, Resolute Captive Is There; Were It But Free, It Would Soar Cloud-high.

I Ask You To Pass Through Life At My Side—to Be My Second Self, And Best Earthly Companion.

Oft A Little Morning Rain Foretells A Pleasant Day.

I Feel Monotony And Death To Be Almost The Same.