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26 INTERIOR VISION.
Sad, sad, are they who know not love, But, far from Passion’s tears and smiles, Drift down a moonless sea, and pass The silvery coasts of fairy isles.
¢¢ But sadder they, whose longing lips Kiss empty air, and never touch The dear warm mouth of those they love, —= Waiting, wasting, suffering much.
“ But, clear as amber, sweet as musk,
Ts life to those whose loves unite! They bask in Allah’s smiles by day, And nestle in his heart by night.”
Thus sang Fatima; thus singeth every true soul. Clairvoyance should be cultivated by everybody, and then there would be fewer marriage mistakes.
No curtain hides from view the spheres elysian, Save these poor shells of half-transparent dust; And all that blinds the spiritual vision Is pride, and hate, and lust. |
Clairvoyance points the road that all should travel. But to be valuable, it should be healthy. Sydney Smith said a good thing when he remarked : —
‘Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach. YI once gave a lady two-and-twenty receipts against melancholy. One was a bright fire; another to remember all the pleasant things said to and of her; another to keep a box of sugar-plums on the chimney-piece, and a kettle simmering on the hob. ,
*¢ Never teach false morality. How exquisitely absurd to tell girls that beauty is of no value— dress of no use! Beauty is of value; her whole prosperity and happiness in life may often depend on anew gown or a becoming bonnet; and if she has five grains of common sense she will find this out. The great thing is to teach her their just value, and that there must be something better under a bonnet than a pretty face for real happiness. But never sacrifice truth.
‘*T am convinced that digestion is the great secret of life; and
Sad, sad, are they who know not love, But, far from Passion’s tears and smiles, Drift down a moonless sea, and pass The silvery coasts of fairy isles.
¢¢ But sadder they, whose longing lips Kiss empty air, and never touch The dear warm mouth of those they love, —= Waiting, wasting, suffering much.
“ But, clear as amber, sweet as musk,
Ts life to those whose loves unite! They bask in Allah’s smiles by day, And nestle in his heart by night.”
Thus sang Fatima; thus singeth every true soul. Clairvoyance should be cultivated by everybody, and then there would be fewer marriage mistakes.
No curtain hides from view the spheres elysian, Save these poor shells of half-transparent dust; And all that blinds the spiritual vision Is pride, and hate, and lust. |
Clairvoyance points the road that all should travel. But to be valuable, it should be healthy. Sydney Smith said a good thing when he remarked : —
‘Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach. YI once gave a lady two-and-twenty receipts against melancholy. One was a bright fire; another to remember all the pleasant things said to and of her; another to keep a box of sugar-plums on the chimney-piece, and a kettle simmering on the hob. ,
*¢ Never teach false morality. How exquisitely absurd to tell girls that beauty is of no value— dress of no use! Beauty is of value; her whole prosperity and happiness in life may often depend on anew gown or a becoming bonnet; and if she has five grains of common sense she will find this out. The great thing is to teach her their just value, and that there must be something better under a bonnet than a pretty face for real happiness. But never sacrifice truth.
‘*T am convinced that digestion is the great secret of life; and
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