Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1856. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... VICTORIA; L AT SEA--TWO HUNDRED YEARS AQO. We are at sea. It is nearly two hundred years ago. The summer morning grows in grace--a tranquil heart is watching it. Dawn ascending to the zenith and descending to the West, compasses the firmament, and holds the ocean in its hand. No hindrance, to all of which its purity is significant, lies in the peaceful heart. As quietly as dawn acquires possession of the world, great thoughts have come into the occupancy of her nature. Accordingly there is no hindrance. The waters only had no rest. In the vast sweep of sky there was not a solitary cloud. Disquiet bejow, but above tranquillity. The wakeful, watching heart saw, felt, and understood the contrast. She had not for the first time to divine its meaning. She saw, moreover, how the light throbbed through the mighty dome, and how the stars did die, and how the soul of morning quickened in its ecstatic apprehension of the glory that should be revealed. Sky, and sea, and intervening ship. It is not a complicated picture, but common as the day. Its immortality depends not on portrayal. The dust of years shall not deface it to the vision of two souls who beheld the scene in all its radiant glory. The lady of the ship, distinguished as such above all others, though not by title--Margaret Gladstone was her name--had come upon the deck, according to her custom, to watch the sunrise. • There was nothing out of place in her occupancy of that hour. It was well that she should stand with her fair face toward the East, a watcher till the day should break; for there was a heavenly composure in the noble countenance, and a strength in her repose, that uttered for itself as sure a prophecy of meridian hours as morning gave of noon. What shall I do for her? Will description render ...
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