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Looking toward Sunset.
FROM
SOURCES OLD, NEW, ORIGINAL,
AND SELECTED.
LOOKING TOWARD SUNSET.
From Sources Old and New, Originaland Selected.
By L. MARIA CHILD.
“When the Sun is setting, cool fall its gleams upon the earth, andthe shadows lengthen; but they all point toward the Morning.”
Jean Paul Richter.
“I am fully convinced that the Soul is indestructible, and that its
activity will continue through eternity. It is like the Sun,
which, to our eyes, seems to set in night; but it has
in reality only gone to diffuse its light
elsewhere.”—Goethe.
BOSTON:
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY.
The Riverside Press, Cambridge.
1881.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1864, by
L. MARIA CHILD,
in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.
TWELFTH EDITION.
TO
MY DEAR AND HONORED FRIENDS
Miss LUCY OSGOOD
AND
Miss HENRIETTA SARGENT,
This Volume
IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED,
IN TOKEN OF GRATITUDE FOR THEIR EXAMPLE,
WHICH CONFERS BEAUTY AND DIGNITY ON DECLINING YEARS,
BY ACTIVE USEFULNESS AND KINDLY SYMPATHY
WITH THE HUMAN RACE.
PREFACE.
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