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-  Hand in hand, a dark-eyed lad and a fair-haired lassie approached.
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-                               REINSTERN
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-
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-[Illustration: BY]
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-                          _ELOISE O. RICHBERG_
-
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-                               CINCINNATI
-                     THE EDITOR PUBLISHING COMPANY
-                                  1900
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-                               COPYRIGHT
-                     THE EDITOR PUBLISHING COMPANY
-                                 1900.
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-                                CONTENTS
-
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-                             REINSTERN
-                             LOVE’S DESTINY
-
-
-
-
-                              _REINSTERN._
-
-
-On, and on, and on! For interminable hours had we been rushing headlong
-over yellowish-brown plains, punctuated here and there by willow-fringed
-streams; past huge water-tanks standing guard over dreary little cabins
-already cowering before the approach of fierce wintry assaults; past
-forlorn specimens of unkempt and altogether hopeless humanity, who
-straggled away toward invisible habitations beyond the horizon, or,
-swaddled in accumulated filth and ragged shawls, squatted in solemn
-stolidity by the roadside for a vanishing glimpse of fleeting
-civilization.
-
-From profitless window-gazing, to that supposedly restful twist
-invariably assumed by the weary woman-traveler; from contemplation of
-barren and boundless distance without, to closed eyes and anxious
-retrospection, within; from the sterility of facts present, to the
-incomparably cruel suggestions of merciless imagination, involving the
-health, happiness, even the life of loved ones left behind;—till,
-gradually, Creation resolved itself into a jumble of indefinable sounds
-and fancies;—a rumbling, jolting, wheezing dizziness:
-
-A crash and lurch brought every would-be-dozer to his feet, the train
-suddenly ceased moving, and apprehensive of danger, we promptly
-responded to the peremptory call: “All out here!” to find ourselves on a
-wide springy platform surrounding a station-building quite unlike any
-previously observed; in an atmosphere laden with the perfume of—was it
-pine-woods—newly mown hay—violets—lilies or jasmine?
-
-It seemed rather a mixture of many delicious odors. Fertile fields and
-wooded hills stretched away before us; men, women and children in ideal
-peasant costumes moved gaily about, chatting together, singing, dancing
-over the velvety sod, or leaping and swinging from the supple boughs
-while pelting each other with blossoms or gathering the luscious fruit
-which was everywhere temptingly abundant.
-
-Through the shrubbery, glimpses of rock-built and vine-covered homes
-told of individual prosperity; flowering mosses outlined the roadways;
-and luxuriant hedges, also in full bloom, divided the grounds one from
-another; fountains and myriad birds filled the air with happy melodies.
-
-Hand in hand, a dark-eyed lad and a fair-haired lassie approached,
-saluted, and simultaneously asked in voices perfectly attuned, “Guides
-for the city?”
-
-Urban instincts immediately awakened and asked, “How far is it, and how
-much—by the hour?”
-
-Again, gracefully and respectfully saluting, they replied, “This is the
-Center; the Fields are to the right and left; our services are paid by
-the government.”
-
-Slightly disconcerted at such unexpected hospitality, but also convinced
-that our reputation as workers for the elevation of mankind had preceded
-us, and rather self-exalted thereby, we said, affably enough; “Very
-well; let the young lady show us about.” With an indulgent smile, they
-explained, “We always help each other.” (“Born twins likely,” being our
-mental comment.)
-
-“These buildings near the Depot, for the convenience of producers and
-consumers, are the Supply Stations, whence are shipped the government
-products from fields and factories.
-
-“Producers are supplied at cost, non-producers at a small advance. The
-general Store-houses are farther down this, the Poplar Valley, but also
-on the line of public travel.
-
-“The Mother-fields are to the right, in the Maple-valley, while the
-Father-fields fill the Elm-valley, to the left.
-
-“Yonder, where the hill-side appears checked with different tints, are
-the Schools of Natural History.”
-
-“Schools?” we interrupted, quite prepared to exploit the superiority of
-certain educational institutions farther east, in the organization and
-regulation of which we had offered several valuable suggestions: “How
-many schools have you?”
-
-“They vary according to our needs; one for every ten students, from four
-to twenty years of age.”
-
-We neglected to dilate upon the immense advantages of our systems. We
-may have been intoxicated by the invigorating atmosphere, the beautiful
-scene, or the chanting and enchanting guides.
-
-We did, however, venture to ask, deprecatingly, “Do you study only
-Natural History?”
-
-With a merry laugh, they answered, “Indeed! That is much, we think: To
-learn of the birth, growth, development and decay of Nature’s products,
-from the tiniest manifestation of life—animal, vegetable and mineral—to
-man’s perfect evolution, from this physical form into spirituality.
-
-“We, children, learn only the rudiments of each change, the Scientists
-and Philosophers make it their life work.”
-
-“And live and die poor, here as elsewhere?” we facetiously suggested.
-
-“Indeed, no!” they answered again, with a merry peal of laughter at so
-dire a possibility. “We have no ‘poor’ as you call them. The government
-is the friend of everyone.”
-
-With a skeptical sniff, and a suspicion that we were in the heart of one
-of those “Ideal communities,” of whose birth, growth and early collapse
-we had read, we asked:
-
-“Where are the other schools, or are those enough for your population?”
-
-“On Bald Hill, toward the east—you can see the brick buildings and
-scaffoldings—are the schools for Mechanics; where those who are so
-fitted by heredity, learn the use of tools and machinery.”
-
-“The children of mechanics, must then follow their father’s calling?”
-
-“Not necessarily: If a carpenter-man does not wish to raise
-carpenter-children, he seeks a wife among the farmers, philosophers,
-professions or wherever his preferences tend. Their united desire calls
-to their home souls harmonious, in development with their intentions.
-
-“Your people have not yet learned this law—in Natural History;” with a
-roguish twinkle, “it is taught in our lowest grades.”
-
-“Taught to children?” we asked horrified at this depravity.
-
-“To little children. Your people ignorantly imagine marriage and birth a
-game of chance, attended by much nonsense and immorality; in which
-parents may draw anything from a blank or a monstrosity to a saint. You
-are here to learn the beautiful truth;—or as much of it as you are
-capable of grasping.”
-
-Their conversation seemed so illy fitted to their years, that we asked
-their age.
-
-“Fifteen and eighteen years of this incarnation, while you are nearly
-fifty; but, in Eternity, we are your seniors and can teach you to crush
-the shell by which Earth-children have surrounded themselves.”
-
-“You speak of ‘Earth-children;’—are you not of them?”
-
-“No; this is Reinstern. You have been brought to us to learn the
-possibilities of your people.”
-
-“Isn’t Reinstern in the western part of the United States?” we asked,
-greatly mystified.
-
-“It is a planet as yet undiscovered by your astronomers, who waste
-lifetimes searching with telescopes for what the inner vision will
-readily disclose when you allow the real self to predominate.”
-
-“This is a flimsy dream, after all,” was our immediate conclusion, which
-though unexpressed, was quickly answered.
-
-“No; you are not dreaming; but thoroughly awake, at last. Upon your
-planet, generation after generation have been given over to materialism
-and hypocrisy; till Life, which is only embodied in Love and Truth, is
-nearly extinct; it is, in your best, torpid.
-
-“Again and again have Teachers and Physicians from a higher plane of
-existence been clothed in your Earth-garb, and lived among you that your
-eyes might be opened.
-
-“You have either persecuted or shunned them, but occasionally, after
-their departure, dully recognizing their mission and superiority, have
-worshipped their materialization; giving no heed to their precepts.
-
-“It is now feared, among the sister-planets, that Earth will lose her
-spirituality, which is her life, and become, again, a nonentity among
-the spheres; a mass of corruption which must, eventually, return to its
-original state of floating matter, to be elsewhere utilized.
-
-“As all progress in humanity is accomplished through loving effort for
-the good of others, Reinstern is now making a vigorous attempt to
-elevate your people; to teach them the great truth that soul-life is one
-with Universal life, and must be allowed its only expression, Love; not
-love in the corrupt sense, received by most of your people, which is not
-Love at all, but only a low grade of selfishness. True Love seeks the
-good of all, and thereby, wins the best for self. This too is
-selfishness; but such is a duty. The Father has clothed us in
-individuality, that we may, through our own exertions, become stronger
-in virtue; unless we avail ourselves of the opportunities he supplies,
-we are ungrateful and unworthy.
-
-“Our bodies are self-built Temples in which to worship, not the outward
-manifestations of His power, but His Spirit of Love, which, though
-all-pervading, all-knowing, all-powerful and all-loving, must ever be
-invisible to finite eyes.
-
-“According as we truly worship and enjoy all within human possibilities,
-recognizing His presence in every blessing, we live; if we ignore Love’s
-voice, we are committing suicide, crowding out of the physical, Life;
-hastening the decay,—individual, national and planetary, which
-inevitably follows injustice and unkindness. This decay manifests itself
-in your ill-health, moral and physical.”
-
-“Do Reinstern people all speak English?” we asked, rather quizzically,
-after this broadside of philosophy.
-
-“You have been magnetically prepared for this experience, and
-psychically understand all that is presented: this is in the hands of
-the electrical students,—is one of their object lessons.
-
-“Were it possible for you to come here unattended and unheralded, you
-would see, hear and understand nothing, as our language resembles your
-thought communication. We are not so advanced in spirituality as in many
-other planets, the inhabitants of which float in the atmosphere at will,
-conversing at all distances as freely as you with your family around the
-breakfast table. With such the physical is quite subordinate to the
-spirit; but we are much above your plane and do not appear materialized
-in your eyes.
-
-“Your spirit is, for the time, magnetically maintained by those who are
-striving for the salvation of Earth from annihilation.
-
-“You will carry your experience back to your people, and devote your
-life to their uplifting. The physical life of those fortunate Earth
-inhabitants who have been found susceptible to our efforts, will be
-greatly prolonged by our people, that all possible good may be
-accomplished.”
-
-After a few minutes—or hours, of riding,—or was it floating? we found
-ourselves in Maple Valley.
-
-Would that we were sufficiently gifted to paint that wondrously
-beautiful scene! to portray the glories of human life among the Good,
-the Pure, the True, the Happy! It were then indeed an object lesson to
-all of Earth’s sorrowing people.
-
-To the left, lay broad fields of grains and grasses, bending timidly
-before the fervent caress of August zephyrs; gardens of unfamiliar
-fruits and vegetables stretched before us; to the right rose tier after
-tier of grassy knolls dotted with low, spreading shrubbery; while
-farther up the slope, ideal groves of magnificent Maples, seemed
-beckoning to the pleasure-lovers.
-
-Perfectly developed humanity supplied the Highlights for the fascinating
-picture. The grassy knolls swarmed with babyhood, whose rosy-cheeked
-mothers in gay colored, tunic-like garbs, busied themselves among the
-rustling foliage;—pruning, training, planting and cultivating.
-
-One could hardly believe that work, considered by us as too
-laborious,—nay—positively injurious for womankind, was being
-accomplished by this band of merry-makers.
-
-When we could distract our attention from the bewildering scene, the
-guides were saying: “These fields are tilled and the crops harvested by
-the mothers of the Yearlings, as you see.”
-
-“Who owns or controls the fields and pays for the labor?”
-
-“It is government land.”
-
-“—and the government?”
-
-“—is officered by citizens who have outlived the parental term and
-successfully graduated into full citizenship three or more children.”
-
-After our mumbled comment, “A premium on parentage, at last,” we asked:
-“Who takes care of the ‘Yearlings,’ as you have called them?”
-
-“Their mothers;” with a puzzled look at each other—“with a little help
-from the Applicants after noon.”
-
-“Women doing farm work and baby-tending? That seems incredible;” we
-exclaimed.
-
-With a peal of happy laughter that proved contagious, and a quickly
-executed, waltz-like whirl of amusement, they preceded the explanation:
-“Until children pass their first birthday, they accompany their mothers
-daily to these fields, to roll about on the sod, dig in the soil or
-sleep in their baskets, while their mothers plant, prune, graft, harvest
-or cultivate according to the season; meanwhile, the Applicants are
-attending to the house and preparing for the noon home-coming; after
-which they share the Yearling duties.”
-
-“Who are the Applicants?”
-
-“Young men and maidens, who desire to marry, after having passed with
-honor through several departments of Education and Preparation; and, by
-the State Records, have proved their ability to provide for the material
-and spiritual needs of a family; and have received, from the Board of
-Public Health their Certificates of physical fitness, are granted the
-Applicant’s degree.
-
-“This entitles them to assist and relieve Fathers and Mothers in their
-home and field duties, until they pass their twenty-fifth birthdays and
-have selected life partners. If they can then show records of at least
-one year’s satisfactory administration of such duties, the Government
-issues their Marriage-license.
-
-“This is, in every family, a period of great rejoicing; each licensed
-child being then honored by visits and gifts from all relatives and
-friends; and, if he or she happens to have merited special recognition
-from the city or State, by any act of peculiar heroism or
-self-sacrifice, the Officials add a generous tribute.
-
-“In some notable cases, the bride or groom must build a house in which
-to store the Ante-wedding presents.”
-
-“You make as much of the license-granting as of the wedding?”
-
-“The public is not expected to take cognizance of the wedding day. It
-would be regarded on Reinstern, as grossly immodest and cruel, to call
-general attention to the exact hour wherein the young couple are legally
-empowered to exercise the marital privileges. It is the culmination of
-the most sacred desires of the human heart.”
-
-As with curtained eyes, they bowed modestly before us, we felt
-unaccountably ashamed of our crude practices, though but dimly
-comprehending the mystic purity of which we were thus vouchsafed a brief
-glimpse.
-
-“Shall we tell you more of the fielding system?”
-
-“Is there more?”
-
-“You have heard but the beginning. While the mothers and applicants are
-thus busied, the fathers are caring for the three-year-olds, the Buds,
-in the Elm-valley,—”
-
-“—and the two-year-olds are at home with the servants?”
-
-“We have no servants; there is no dominating or servile class; all try
-to serve the same Divine Will, as interpreted by the Higher Self.
-
-“Our oldest citizens are advisers in time of doubt; being more highly
-developed and able to read the Truth more clearly through the delicate
-material veil they will soon discard.”
-
-“Death can have no terrors for them?”
-
-“What you term ‘Death’, the change to the next higher plane of
-materiality, is, with us, but the passing of night-time; we anticipate
-the glories of the approaching dawn.
-
-“You are to see this change before you leave us. You asked of the
-two-year-olds, or, as we know them, the Restless. They are in the charge
-of the recently married women, who thus acquire a practical knowledge of
-the motherhood to which they aspire.
-
-“They, also have field and garden duties, not so absorbing or laborious
-as those of the parents, for two reasons: The Restless need rather more
-attention than the Yearlings; and the young wives themselves require
-more leisure for study and preparation.”
-
-“But who earns the living for the family?”
-
-Again the waltzing whirl of suppressed amusement, before they said
-gravely: “Parents are the highest priced laborers in the land; mothers
-and fathers receiving equal honors, salaries and privileges.”
-
-“It is all very beautiful—very—too beautiful to be true.”
-
-“It is true; and its simplicity brings its realization within the reach
-of all. It must be realized by Earth: You have the conditions,
-everything, except the will to accomplish the change. All blessings are
-yours to take. You are only self-blinded; and by your bigotry, are in
-danger of blood-poisoning.
-
-“Bathe your eyes in Truth; open them to His everlasting and all-powerful
-Love, and wash away the putrefaction that threatens your Eternal
-welfare, your planet’s existence.”
-
-A radiant light enveloped them, an invisible choir flooded the air with
-celestial harmonies; we bowed ourselves, reverently, before an unseen
-but overpowering presence, and covering our faces answered, fervidly:
-“With Thy help, Lord, we will.”
-
-“After the third year?”
-
-“The recently married men receive the graduating Buds into the Youth’s
-department, and devote their first year to them; their work is also in
-the open air and completes the Field course.
-
-“After these young benedicts promote a class of Youth, they receive
-their full certificates of Fatherhood. They are then of age, as you
-would call it.”
-
-“Are not many of these young people unfit for the responsibilities, the
-custody of children, the field work or—”
-
-“You have forgotten that marriage-licenses are granted only after the
-Applicants are fully qualified. Our Committee on Generation thoroughly
-investigate every case.”
-
-“The five-year-olds?”
-
-“Are taken in groups of ten, by teachers, who, during the following two
-years, instruct them in the first principles of birth, growth and change
-as presented by plant and animal life in field, forest, garden and home:
-This includes much you would classify as rudiments of Physiology,
-Chemistry, Astronomy, Psychology, Paleontology, Arithmetic, Language,
-Geography, History and Agriculture, besides Cleaning and Cooking. It is
-accomplished however without books or tablets, and, much of it outside
-the class-rooms.
-
-“Flowers, fruits, vegetables and grains; birds, fish, reptiles and many
-other forms of animal life, are germinated and developed to maturity;
-nurtured and experimented upon; but ever to the benefit of the life
-involved.”
-
-“Are your teachers men or women?”
-
-“Both; always in pairs; the government believing that by constant and
-familiar association, only, can the present standard of purity and
-liberty be maintained.”
-
-A strain of flute-like music interrupted us. “A sick call,” explained
-the guides. “You see the flags floating from occasional nursery knolls;
-they locate ailing babes, and demand attention from any passing mother;
-while every staff-whistle is distinctive and quickly recognized by the
-mother whose offspring has special need of her presence. Knowing this,
-each is free from that harrowing anxiety experienced by Earth mothers,
-who must watch constantly over their teething or otherwise ailing little
-ones; or suffer untold agonies with apprehension, during an absence;
-thus poisoning the nourishment, in preparation, which Nature intends to
-serve as a cure for every infantile ill.”
-
-“But it seems positively cruel to force mothers with sick children into
-the field.” We were really indignant about it.
-
-Again those merry children laughed in great glee at our innocence:
-“Reinstern mothers are forced to—nothing; they are their own sovereigns.
-They have fitted themselves for their positions, and their
-responsibilities are the greatest possible—the reproduction of the race.
-Their salaries are generous, and continue without interruption or
-diminution throughout the parental term.”
-
-“How long is that?”
-
-“Never more than fifteen years, though contingent upon the age of
-marriage. The term limit, in years, is from forty to forty five.”
-
-“How do parents invest their earnings?”
-
-“According to individual tastes and preferences. As with you, many have
-beautiful homes, with extensive grounds, indulge in Art Galleries,
-Libraries, Theaters, or Conservatories, while others devote the later
-years to special sciences or enter the School of Physicians.”
-
-“Then even this hygienic regime entails occasional illness?”
-
-“Accidents will always attend immaturity and inexperience; Infinite
-Wisdom alone can insure perfect harmony; but our physicians are also a
-salaried class, who teach as well as heal. Ill health which
-incapacitates members of his families for daily usefulness, is recorded
-against the physician; and a succession of such reports count to his
-discredit, even to the extent of depriving him of his diploma. In such
-cases, he, through the advice of the sages, seeks a less responsible
-avocation, or one for which he is better qualified.
-
-“We do not, like you, bribe our doctors to neglect their patients or
-retard their cure.
-
-“Our medical course is in three departments: Chemistry, Magnetism and
-Materia Medica. The first concerns the elements and combinations forming
-the physical body of man. Magnetism teaches the application of these
-principles and elements to the upbuilding and repairing of the body,
-while in Materia Medica we are taught to locate and extract these
-required principles from the animal, vegetable and mineral world. We
-hope to be physicians, after a time.”
-
-This wish was uttered with a deep joyousness that told of a riper
-understanding than is expressed when the Earth-born youngster, during a
-brief cessation from banister-sliding or somersault-turning, exclaims,
-“I am going to be a doctor—a lawyer—or a policeman,” and yet there was
-an enthusiasm that was almost a parallel.
-
-“You have not mentioned lawyers.”
-
-“We have none; yours are an outgrowth of dishonesty and cruelty; a
-finger pointing to dissolution.
-
-“Your law is a demoralizing human rule, through the enforcement of which
-you would compel mankind to do what should be in accordance with his
-ardent desire. If he disobeys your petty law, you inflict
-penalties;—even daring to shorten his physical existence. From the
-effects of this treatment, he, like you, must suffer for ages to come,
-so seriously is his growth retarded.
-
-“We, on the other hand, feel deeply humiliated by any act of wrong among
-our people, which demands public notice; it reflects upon the moral
-atmosphere of the community.”
-
-“Do your people never, in anger, disappointment or unusual depression or
-excitement, injure others, or trespass upon their rights?”
-
-“Occasionally;” they admitted, sadly.
-
-“And the punishment?” We were most curious to learn the treatment of
-evil among the good.
-
-“If it be fully proved, before the officials, one has committed a really
-flagrant offense, he is uniformed in red, as a symbol of materialistic
-domination, and sent to the School of Philosophy, where the Sages meet
-for discussions. Your Socrates was a philosopher of their class. There,
-he has the best possible atmosphere in which to recognize and correct
-his faults.
-
-“During this term of reformation, his parents, if still in the flesh,
-usually wear mourning, from choice, in recognition of their own
-shortcomings during his conception or earlier years.”
-
-“How long is this term of punishment?”
-
-“Not punishment; development; we consider it the Second Childhood. The
-time varies from one to six months of your counting.
-
-“We have only one bad case on our records,” they added proudly.
-
-“Are you allowed to state the facts?”
-
-“It is of public record and History: A father knocked down his own
-son—because he kicked him.”
-
-“Kicked his father?”
-
-“Yes; poor little fellow!”
-
-“Surely the boy should be punished;—not the father?”
-
-After a startled glance of indignation, which quickly faded into pity,
-they continued:
-
-“Children inherit all physical tendencies from their physical parents.
-In the case under discussion, the lad received vicious inclinations from
-the father, who had, however, so controlled his temper as to
-successfully pass all ante-marriage tests.
-
-“Had he taught that son by example the self-discipline he so well
-understood, the boy would never have disgraced us.
-
-“Through whose neglect was the boy injured? Clearly the father’s. The
-mother was also considered at fault, to this extent:
-
-“Through a mistaken charity, a desire to shield her beloved from
-criticism, she had endured, without complaint several outbreaks previous
-to the one reported; for this she resigned, temporarily, her maternal
-rights and colors. Our future generations must be protected at any
-cost.”
-
-“Then she finally delivered him over for the sake of the future?”
-
-“The offense was committed in the field and was reported by the Agent,
-as it should have been by whomever witnessed the relapse.
-
-“All feared the most disastrous effect upon our community. You may not
-fully understand that such manifestations act as carrion, attracting
-from lower atmospheres those ravenous thought-creatures, bred by
-evil-doers, and called by some of your inspired writers, ‘Elementals’,
-who swarm around unhealthy humanity, endangering the welfare of every
-sensitive organism within their reach, in their senseless frenzy to
-prolong a shadowy and useless existence.
-
-“Bereft of filth, they gradually lose their electrical vitality and
-power to harm; and finally disintegrate into crude matter.
-
-“This father was uniformed in red and delegated to the School of
-Philosophy for one entire season. There he was also subjected to the
-influence of most refining music, and his reformation was complete; for
-we have not a more patient and conscientious father or husband in the
-city.
-
-“He was restored to his paternal colors and is a much better man than
-ever, for his victory over the parasites that were sapping his life.”
-
-During the conversation, we had been slowly traversing the length of the
-valley, noting as we passed, elastic health and unalloyed happiness upon
-every side. Most strongly were we impressed by the vigorous girlish
-beauty of the matrons, who were at regular intervals, as fondly absorbed
-in their nursing darlings, as the most devoted of Earth mothers.
-
-During these brief intervals, when the Nursery knolls were thronged with
-mothers, attention was called to occasional workers, who though resting,
-like the others, from their field labors, were busily writing in small
-volumes suspended from their girdles.
-
-“Government Agents who keep the Time accounts that the mothers may not
-be harassed or disturbed; they only of all the field workers are not
-parents.”
-
-“Why, if salaried and free, are they timed?”
-
-“Time is an important factor in determining the value of the crops;
-seasons differ in the amount required, as with you.
-
-“The sod and soil must at times be too cold and damp for these tender
-human germs.
-
-“We need every variation of temperature, and are, by this close
-companionship with nature, able to absorb the physical elements which
-give us strength and endurance; by this very course, we are enabled to
-preserve a youthful vigor to which Earth-folk are strangers. During the
-time of physical growth we court every opportunity for absorbing Force;
-this, assimilated, we may in later years live according to our tastes
-and preferences, as we have then the power to attract and adjust
-whatever may be required for recreation.”
-
-We suddenly became conscious of an uncomfortable rumbling and jarring,
-similar to the sensations we had experienced during the Earth-life, from
-which we had till now seemed so widely separated; as this confusion
-ceased, we heard in those sweet tones we were rapidly learning to love:
-
-“We will dine now, if you wish;” and simultaneously felt ourselves borne
-rapidly through space and finally into a large, airy apartment—an ideal
-dining room.
-
-We had hardly taken cognizance of its many beauties, before we were
-again attacked with the jolting, rocking, lurching consciousness of
-Earth-life, and became dimly aware of harsh voices unpleasantly near
-us.——
-
-Our guides announced us simply as “Voyagers from Earth,” in response to
-which the matronly queen who presided, greeted us cordially, directing
-us toward capacious easy chairs which nearly surrounded the room.
-
-After several ineffectual efforts to rise above the haunting spectres of
-our former life, we were dully conscious of being addressed by the host,
-as follows:
-
-“Your Earth People are in their ignorance robbing you of this
-opportunity; being greatly disturbed over your absence from the body,
-which they have discovered notwithstanding our efforts to hold their
-attention elsewhere.
-
-“The one poor harassed soul, less gross than the rest, upon whose
-instincts we have relied for your safe return, has yielded to their
-importunities sooner than we anticipated, and has now resorted to
-Prayer. An earnest Prayer to the Father from a sincere and faithful
-heart is a Power we can not safely combat.
-
-“You must now return; but we will try to raise you again from the
-depths, when you are in the quiet of your own home, alone, and the
-prospects are favorable.”
-
-Deeply disappointed and violently struggling against the power that
-would thus wrench us from the happy haven into which we had drifted, we
-heard—O, so faintly, as from a great distance——
-
-“Rest easily, Earth-child; you are doing yourself only harm. All will be
-made clear in the Good Father’s own time.”
-
-Then the horrible whistles, the jolting of the train, and an indignant
-voice saying:
-
-“Didn’t you see her shiver? Such a fuss over nothing! She is coming to,
-all right. Better keep your bottle for those that need it. Some doctors
-think that brandy will start or stop the universe.” This last in an
-undertone.
-
-We opened our eyes very reluctantly, to find a red-faced, wrinkled and
-be-whiskered man bending over us, with a breath strongly indicative of
-the contents of a bottle held threateningly near.
-
-Pushing it angrily away, we exclaimed in a far-from-Reinstern-like
-tone:—
-
-“Why are you meddling with our affairs? We did not want to come back
-yet; we have not seen the father’s field;—not even had dinner—and things
-looked so attractive!”
-
-He shook his head with a professional air, and murmured: “Not right
-yet;—better,—decidedly better.”
-
-Then we sat up as straight as a clothes-pin, and glaring at the
-passengers about our seat rudely demanded:
-
-“Just trot right off about your own affairs, now, all of you; you have
-treated us shamefully, and,” we sniveled and wept a little at this
-point, “we don’t even know your names.”
-
-The conductor now interposed: “Madam, you fainted, and but for the
-kindness of this physician,—”
-
-“Kindness of fiddlesticks!” we interrupted, “we were out of town, off on
-a voyage,—visiting friends,—and should have returned in good time, if—”
-
-The doctor hastily returned to his post, while the others with
-horror-stricken faces, as promptly retreated.
-
-Resourceless before their suspicions, we relinquished all intentions to
-elucidate, and added, simply:
-
-“Who thought we were all right if left alone?”
-
-Whereupon a mild-mannered miss of probably sixteen well-invested
-summers, turned toward us to say, modestly:
-
-“I’ve seen people that way before; Aunt Sophronia often is; I don’t
-understand it; but you didn’t look a bit dead.”
-
-“Dead!” we ejaculated; “We’d like to die that way often, every day or
-two. You must have some common sense.”
-
-Then we straightened up our traveling cap, and stared savagely at the
-outside panorama of brown fields, while we tried to imagine a life of
-love, truth, justice, charity;—among idiots.
-
-Later, we convinced our fellow-passengers of our sanity, by expressing
-our grateful appreciation of their solicitude; how could they know?—and
-assurance of our complete recovery.
-
-
-
-
-                           _LOVE’S DESTINY._
-
-
-         Where the gray crag kisses the virgin sky,
-         And the fledgling eagles half-famished cry,
-         Where the sun’s kind glance warms the cloud to tears,
-         And the snow-bank clings to the earth for years;
-         Where the lichens starve and the sad winds mourn,
-         There, a host of cupids at eve were born.
-
-         They came tumbling out from their rocky nest,
-         Nor regretful wailed for the rugged breast;
-         But astride the crest of a stream as blue
-         As the star-lit sky; with their arrows true,
-         Downy, sun-tipped wings and the briefest legs,
-         Just like dear young ducklings released from eggs.
-
-         They are fluttering, splashing in frolic gay,
-         Whirling here and there in the misty spray;
-         Now, anon, down dizziest steeps they glide,
-         All demurely, roguishly, side by side;
-         In their path, huge bowlders await, but see!
-         With a somersault they are passed in glee.
-
-         Through a rock-bound glen next they gurgling go.
-         ’Neath caressing, whispering branches, low,
-         For a splashing romp, undisturbed by fear,
-         In a broad lake, billowy, deep and clear;
-         But they’re nearing, blindly, the crumbling edge
-         Of a ragged, cruel and treacherous ledge;
-
-         While those countless myriads are hurrying in,—
-         Crowding, racing, chasing from brim to brim:
-         Hark! With hands clasped over an aching breast,
-         A poor Soul moans, “Come to me, Love, and rest;
-         Long and patiently have I watched for you:
-         Fill my heart and home with yourselves so true.”
-
-         Do you hear them chant, in their rapturous glee,
-         “Never tires Love, Soul; we are not for thee.
-         We must on and on, like the water blue;
-         Bravely wait, work, hope, till your Love finds you.
-         Danger waits below; you are tempting Death;”
-         She is calling, still; for, with bated breath,
-
-         Has she watched, benumbed, while a sportive elf
-         Laughing wildly, recklessly, cast himself
-         From their midst, to the surging depths below;
-         And she moans, “Dear Love, I shall miss you so.”
-         “Love but laughs at dangers; fear not;” they say,
-         “Fancy not he dies: We all live for aye.”
-         Right over they tumbled;—she peers down to see—
-         Not death;—but mad revels of exquisite glee:
-         Joyous myriads whirled in the dashing spray!
-
-                ·       ·       ·       ·       ·
-
-         Think ye not love dies in an hour—a day;
-         ’Tis his dim, dull shadow, o’er which men weep,
-         When a sun-cloud gives to the shadow, sleep;
-
-         But Immortal love, ever close beside,
-         Through life’s midnight hours will undimmed abide.
-         Watch and pray, lone Soul, for the love that lasts;
-         Sighing not o’er shadows another casts;
-         Lest a passion-cloud should engulf your way,
-         Till you, helpless and hopeless, drift astray.
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-<p class='c000'><b>Transcriber’s Note:</b></p>
-
-<p class='c000'>The cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.</p>
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-<div  class='figcenter id001'>
-<img src='images/i_frontispiece.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic001'>
-<p>Hand in hand, a dark-eyed lad and a fair-haired lassie approached.<br /><br />Page <a href='#Page_4'>4</a>.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<div class='titlepage'>
-
-<div>
-  <h1 class='c001'><span class='under'><span class='fss'>REINSTERN</span></span></h1>
-</div>
-<div  class='figcenter id002'>
-<img src='images/i_title_a.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id002'>
-<img src='images/i_title_b.jpg' alt='BY' class='ig001' />
-</div>
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-<div class='nf-center-c0'>
-<div class='nf-center c002'>
-    <div><span class='xlarge'><i>ELOISE O. RICHBERG</i></span></div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id002'>
-<img src='images/i_title_c.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<div class='nf-center-c0'>
-  <div class='nf-center'>
-    <div>CINCINNATI</div>
-    <div><span class='large'><span class='sc'>The Editor Publishing Company</span></span></div>
-    <div>1900</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-
-</div>
-
-<div class='nf-center-c0'>
-<div class='nf-center c003'>
-    <div><span class='sc'>Copyright</span></div>
-    <div><span class='sc'>The Editor Publishing Company</span></div>
-    <div>1900.</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-
-<div class='pbb'>
- <hr class='pb c004' />
-</div>
-<div class='chapter'>
-  <h2 id='CONTENTS' class='c005'>CONTENTS</h2>
-</div>
-<div class='lg-container-b c002'>
-  <div class='linegroup'>
-    <div class='group'>
-      <div class='line'><a href='#REINSTERN'>REINSTERN</a></div>
-      <div class='line'><a href='#LOVE'>LOVE’S DESTINY</a></div>
-    </div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-
-<div class='chapter'>
-  <span class='pageno' id='Page_1'>1</span>
-  <h2 id='REINSTERN' class='c005'><i>REINSTERN.</i></h2>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c006'>On, and on, and on! For interminable
-hours had we been rushing
-headlong over yellowish-brown plains,
-punctuated here and there by willow-fringed
-streams; past huge water-tanks
-standing guard over dreary little
-cabins already cowering before the
-approach of fierce wintry assaults;
-past forlorn specimens of unkempt
-and altogether hopeless humanity, who
-straggled away toward invisible habitations
-beyond the horizon, or, swaddled
-in accumulated filth and ragged
-shawls, squatted in solemn stolidity
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_2'>2</span>by the roadside for a vanishing glimpse
-of fleeting civilization.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>From profitless window-gazing,
-to that supposedly restful twist invariably
-assumed by the weary woman-traveler;
-from contemplation of barren
-and boundless distance without, to
-closed eyes and anxious retrospection,
-within; from the sterility of facts present,
-to the incomparably cruel suggestions
-of merciless imagination, involving
-the health, happiness, even
-the life of loved ones left behind;—till,
-gradually, Creation resolved itself
-into a jumble of indefinable sounds
-and fancies;—a rumbling, jolting,
-wheezing dizziness:</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>A crash and lurch brought every
-would-be-dozer to his feet, the train
-suddenly ceased moving, and apprehensive
-of danger, we promptly responded
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_3'>3</span>to the peremptory call: “All
-out here!” to find ourselves on a wide
-springy platform surrounding a station-building
-quite unlike any previously
-observed; in an atmosphere laden with
-the perfume of—was it pine-woods—newly
-mown hay—violets—lilies or
-jasmine?</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>It seemed rather a mixture of
-many delicious odors. Fertile fields
-and wooded hills stretched away before
-us; men, women and children in
-ideal peasant costumes moved gaily
-about, chatting together, singing,
-dancing over the velvety sod, or leaping
-and swinging from the supple
-boughs while pelting each other with
-blossoms or gathering the luscious
-fruit which was everywhere temptingly
-abundant.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>Through the shrubbery, glimpses
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_4'>4</span>of rock-built and vine-covered homes
-told of individual prosperity; flowering
-mosses outlined the roadways; and
-luxuriant hedges, also in full bloom,
-divided the grounds one from another;
-fountains and myriad birds filled the
-air with happy melodies.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>Hand in hand, a dark-eyed lad
-and a fair-haired lassie approached, saluted,
-and simultaneously asked in
-voices perfectly attuned, “Guides for
-the city?”</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>Urban instincts immediately awakened
-and asked, “How far is it,
-and how much—by the hour?”</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>Again, gracefully and respectfully
-saluting, they replied, “This is
-the Center; the Fields are to the right
-and left; our services are paid by the
-government.”</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>Slightly disconcerted at such unexpected
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_5'>5</span>hospitality, but also convinced
-that our reputation as workers
-for the elevation of mankind had preceded
-us, and rather self-exalted
-thereby, we said, affably enough;
-“Very well; let the young lady show
-us about.” With an indulgent smile,
-they explained, “We always help
-each other.” (“Born twins likely,”
-being our mental comment.)</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“These buildings near the Depot,
-for the convenience of producers and
-consumers, are the Supply Stations,
-whence are shipped the government
-products from fields and factories.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“Producers are supplied at cost,
-non-producers at a small advance.
-The general Store-houses are farther
-down this, the Poplar Valley, but
-also on the line of public travel.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“The Mother-fields are to the
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_6'>6</span>right, in the Maple-valley, while the
-Father-fields fill the Elm-valley, to
-the left.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“Yonder, where the hill-side appears
-checked with different tints, are
-the Schools of Natural History.”</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“Schools?” we interrupted, quite
-prepared to exploit the superiority of
-certain educational institutions farther
-east, in the organization and regulation
-of which we had offered several
-valuable suggestions: “How many
-schools have you?”</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“They vary according to our
-needs; one for every ten students,
-from four to twenty years of age.”</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>We neglected to dilate upon the
-immense advantages of our systems.
-We may have been intoxicated by the
-invigorating atmosphere, the beautiful
-scene, or the chanting and enchanting
-guides.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'><span class='pageno' id='Page_7'>7</span>We did, however, venture to ask,
-deprecatingly, “Do you study only
-Natural History?”</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>With a merry laugh, they answered,
-“Indeed! That is much, we
-think: To learn of the birth, growth,
-development and decay of Nature’s
-products, from the tiniest manifestation
-of life—animal, vegetable and
-mineral—to man’s perfect evolution,
-from this physical form into spirituality.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“We, children, learn only the
-rudiments of each change, the Scientists
-and Philosophers make it their
-life work.”</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“And live and die poor, here as
-elsewhere?” we facetiously suggested.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“Indeed, no!” they answered again,
-with a merry peal of laughter
-at so dire a possibility. “We have
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_8'>8</span>no ‘poor’ as you call them. The government
-is the friend of everyone.”</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>With a skeptical sniff, and a
-suspicion that we were in the heart of
-one of those “Ideal communities,” of
-whose birth, growth and early collapse
-we had read, we asked:</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“Where are the other schools, or
-are those enough for your population?”</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“On Bald Hill, toward the east—you
-can see the brick buildings and
-scaffoldings—are the schools for Mechanics;
-where those who are so fitted
-by heredity, learn the use of tools
-and machinery.”</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“The children of mechanics, must
-then follow their father’s calling?”</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“Not necessarily: If a carpenter-man
-does not wish to raise carpenter-children,
-he seeks a wife among the
-farmers, philosophers, professions or
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_9'>9</span>wherever his preferences tend. Their
-united desire calls to their home souls
-harmonious, in development with their
-intentions.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“Your people have not yet learned
-this law—in Natural History;” with
-a roguish twinkle, “it is taught in
-our lowest grades.”</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“Taught to children?” we asked
-horrified at this depravity.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“To little children. Your people
-ignorantly imagine marriage and birth
-a game of chance, attended by much
-nonsense and immorality; in which
-parents may draw anything from a
-blank or a monstrosity to a saint. You
-are here to learn the beautiful truth;—or
-as much of it as you are capable
-of grasping.”</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>Their conversation seemed so illy
-fitted to their years, that we asked
-their age.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'><span class='pageno' id='Page_10'>10</span>“Fifteen and eighteen years of
-this incarnation, while you are nearly
-fifty; but, in Eternity, we are your
-seniors and can teach you to crush
-the shell by which Earth-children
-have surrounded themselves.”</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“You speak of ‘Earth-children;’—are
-you not of them?”</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“No; this is Reinstern. You
-have been brought to us to learn the
-possibilities of your people.”</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“Isn’t Reinstern in the western
-part of the United States?” we asked,
-greatly mystified.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“It is a planet as yet undiscovered
-by your astronomers, who waste
-lifetimes searching with telescopes for
-what the inner vision will readily disclose
-when you allow the real self to
-predominate.”</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“This is a flimsy dream, after
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_11'>11</span>all,” was our immediate conclusion,
-which though unexpressed, was quickly
-answered.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“No; you are not dreaming; but
-thoroughly awake, at last. Upon your
-planet, generation after generation
-have been given over to materialism
-and hypocrisy; till Life, which is only
-embodied in Love and Truth, is nearly
-extinct; it is, in your best, torpid.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“Again and again have Teachers
-and Physicians from a higher
-plane of existence been clothed in
-your Earth-garb, and lived among
-you that your eyes might be opened.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“You have either persecuted or
-shunned them, but occasionally, after
-their departure, dully recognizing
-their mission and superiority, have
-worshipped their materialization; giving
-no heed to their precepts.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'><span class='pageno' id='Page_12'>12</span>“It is now feared, among the
-sister-planets, that Earth will lose her
-spirituality, which is her life, and become,
-again, a nonentity among the
-spheres; a mass of corruption which
-must, eventually, return to its original
-state of floating matter, to be elsewhere
-utilized.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“As all progress in humanity is
-accomplished through loving effort for
-the good of others, Reinstern is now
-making a vigorous attempt to elevate
-your people; to teach them the great
-truth that soul-life is one with Universal
-life, and must be allowed its
-only expression, Love; not love in
-the corrupt sense, received by most
-of your people, which is not Love at
-all, but only a low grade of selfishness.
-True Love seeks the good of all, and
-thereby, wins the best for self. This
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_13'>13</span>too is selfishness; but such is a duty.
-The Father has clothed us in individuality,
-that we may, through our own
-exertions, become stronger in virtue;
-unless we avail ourselves of the opportunities
-he supplies, we are ungrateful
-and unworthy.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“Our bodies are self-built Temples
-in which to worship, not the outward
-manifestations of His power, but His
-Spirit of Love, which, though all-pervading,
-all-knowing, all-powerful and
-all-loving, must ever be invisible to
-finite eyes.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“According as we truly worship
-and enjoy all within human possibilities,
-recognizing His presence in every
-blessing, we live; if we ignore Love’s
-voice, we are committing suicide,
-crowding out of the physical, Life;
-hastening the decay,—individual, national
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_14'>14</span>and planetary, which inevitably
-follows injustice and unkindness. This
-decay manifests itself in your ill-health,
-moral and physical.”</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“Do Reinstern people all speak
-English?” we asked, rather quizzically,
-after this broadside of philosophy.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“You have been magnetically
-prepared for this experience, and
-psychically understand all that is presented:
-this is in the hands of the electrical
-students,—is one of their object
-lessons.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“Were it possible for you to
-come here unattended and unheralded,
-you would see, hear and understand
-nothing, as our language resembles
-your thought communication. We
-are not so advanced in spirituality as
-in many other planets, the inhabitants
-of which float in the atmosphere at
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_15'>15</span>will, conversing at all distances as
-freely as you with your family around
-the breakfast table. With such the
-physical is quite subordinate to the
-spirit; but we are much above your
-plane and do not appear materialized
-in your eyes.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“Your spirit is, for the time,
-magnetically maintained by those who
-are striving for the salvation of Earth
-from annihilation.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“You will carry your experience
-back to your people, and devote your
-life to their uplifting. The physical
-life of those fortunate Earth inhabitants
-who have been found susceptible
-to our efforts, will be greatly prolonged
-by our people, that all possible
-good may be accomplished.”</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>After a few minutes—or hours, of
-riding,—or was it floating? we found
-ourselves in Maple Valley.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'><span class='pageno' id='Page_16'>16</span>Would that we were sufficiently
-gifted to paint that wondrously beautiful
-scene! to portray the glories of
-human life among the Good, the Pure,
-the True, the Happy! It were then
-indeed an object lesson to all of
-Earth’s sorrowing people.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>To the left, lay broad fields of
-grains and grasses, bending timidly
-before the fervent caress of August
-zephyrs; gardens of unfamiliar fruits
-and vegetables stretched before us;
-to the right rose tier after tier of
-grassy knolls dotted with low, spreading
-shrubbery; while farther up the
-slope, ideal groves of magnificent
-Maples, seemed beckoning to the
-pleasure-lovers.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>Perfectly developed humanity
-supplied the Highlights for the fascinating
-picture. The grassy knolls
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_17'>17</span>swarmed with babyhood, whose rosy-cheeked
-mothers in gay colored, tunic-like
-garbs, busied themselves among
-the rustling foliage;—pruning, training,
-planting and cultivating.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>One could hardly believe that
-work, considered by us as too laborious,—nay—positively
-injurious for womankind,
-was being accomplished by this
-band of merry-makers.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>When we could distract our attention
-from the bewildering scene,
-the guides were saying: “These fields
-are tilled and the crops harvested by
-the mothers of the Yearlings, as you
-see.”</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“Who owns or controls the fields
-and pays for the labor?”</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“It is government land.”</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“—and the government?”</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“—is officered by citizens who
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_18'>18</span>have outlived the parental term and
-successfully graduated into full citizenship
-three or more children.”</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>After our mumbled comment,
-“A premium on parentage, at last,”
-we asked: “Who takes care of the
-‘Yearlings,’ as you have called them?”</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“Their mothers;” with a puzzled
-look at each other—“with a little help
-from the Applicants after noon.”</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“Women doing farm work and
-baby-tending? That seems incredible;”
-we exclaimed.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>With a peal of happy laughter
-that proved contagious, and a quickly
-executed, waltz-like whirl of amusement,
-they preceded the explanation:
-“Until children pass their first birthday,
-they accompany their mothers
-daily to these fields, to roll about on
-the sod, dig in the soil or sleep in
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_19'>19</span>their baskets, while their mothers
-plant, prune, graft, harvest or cultivate
-according to the season; meanwhile,
-the Applicants are attending
-to the house and preparing for the
-noon home-coming; after which they
-share the Yearling duties.”</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“Who are the Applicants?”</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“Young men and maidens, who
-desire to marry, after having passed
-with honor through several departments
-of Education and Preparation;
-and, by the State Records, have proved
-their ability to provide for the material
-and spiritual needs of a family;
-and have received, from the Board of
-Public Health their Certificates of
-physical fitness, are granted the Applicant’s
-degree.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“This entitles them to assist and
-relieve Fathers and Mothers in their
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_20'>20</span>home and field duties, until they pass
-their twenty-fifth birthdays and have
-selected life partners. If they can
-then show records of at least one
-year’s satisfactory administration of
-such duties, the Government issues
-their Marriage-license.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“This is, in every family, a period
-of great rejoicing; each licensed
-child being then honored by visits
-and gifts from all relatives and friends;
-and, if he or she happens to have
-merited special recognition from the
-city or State, by any act of peculiar
-heroism or self-sacrifice, the Officials
-add a generous tribute.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“In some notable cases, the
-bride or groom must build a house in
-which to store the Ante-wedding
-presents.”</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“You make as much of the license-granting
-as of the wedding?”</p>
-
-<p class='c007'><span class='pageno' id='Page_21'>21</span>“The public is not expected to
-take cognizance of the wedding day.
-It would be regarded on Reinstern,
-as grossly immodest and cruel, to call
-general attention to the exact hour
-wherein the young couple are legally
-empowered to exercise the marital
-privileges. It is the culmination of
-the most sacred desires of the human
-heart.”</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>As with curtained eyes, they
-bowed modestly before us, we felt unaccountably
-ashamed of our crude
-practices, though but dimly comprehending
-the mystic purity of which
-we were thus vouchsafed a brief
-glimpse.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“Shall we tell you more of the
-fielding system?”</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“Is there more?”</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“You have heard but the beginning.
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_22'>22</span>While the mothers and applicants
-are thus busied, the fathers are
-caring for the three-year-olds, the
-Buds, in the Elm-valley,—”</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“—and the two-year-olds are at
-home with the servants?”</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“We have no servants; there is
-no dominating or servile class; all try
-to serve the same Divine Will, as interpreted
-by the Higher Self.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“Our oldest citizens are advisers
-in time of doubt; being more highly
-developed and able to read the Truth
-more clearly through the delicate material
-veil they will soon discard.”</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“Death can have no terrors for
-them?”</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“What you term ‘Death’, the
-change to the next higher plane of
-materiality, is, with us, but the passing
-of night-time; we anticipate the
-glories of the approaching dawn.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'><span class='pageno' id='Page_23'>23</span>“You are to see this change before
-you leave us. You asked of the
-two-year-olds, or, as we know them,
-the Restless. They are in the charge of
-the recently married women, who
-thus acquire a practical knowledge of
-the motherhood to which they aspire.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“They, also have field and garden
-duties, not so absorbing or laborious
-as those of the parents, for two
-reasons: The Restless need rather
-more attention than the Yearlings;
-and the young wives themselves require
-more leisure for study and preparation.”</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“But who earns the living for
-the family?”</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>Again the waltzing whirl of suppressed
-amusement, before they said
-gravely: “Parents are the highest
-priced laborers in the land; mothers
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_24'>24</span>and fathers receiving equal honors,
-salaries and privileges.”</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“It is all very beautiful—very—too
-beautiful to be true.”</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“It is true; and its simplicity
-brings its realization within the reach
-of all. It must be realized by Earth:
-You have the conditions, everything,
-except the will to accomplish the
-change. All blessings are yours to
-take. You are only self-blinded; and
-by your bigotry, are in danger of
-blood-poisoning.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“Bathe your eyes in Truth; open
-them to His everlasting and all-powerful
-Love, and wash away the putrefaction
-that threatens your Eternal
-welfare, your planet’s existence.”</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>A radiant light enveloped them,
-an invisible choir flooded the air with
-celestial harmonies; we bowed ourselves,
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_25'>25</span>reverently, before an unseen
-but overpowering presence, and covering
-our faces answered, fervidly:
-“With Thy help, Lord, we will.”</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“After the third year?”</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“The recently married men receive
-the graduating Buds into the
-Youth’s department, and devote their
-first year to them; their work is also
-in the open air and completes the
-Field course.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“After these young benedicts
-promote a class of Youth, they receive
-their full certificates of Fatherhood.
-They are then of age, as you
-would call it.”</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“Are not many of these young
-people unfit for the responsibilities,
-the custody of children, the field
-work or—”</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“You have forgotten that marriage-licenses
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_26'>26</span>are granted only after
-the Applicants are fully qualified.
-Our Committee on Generation thoroughly
-investigate every case.”</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“The five-year-olds?”</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“Are taken in groups of ten, by
-teachers, who, during the following
-two years, instruct them in the first
-principles of birth, growth and change
-as presented by plant and animal life in
-field, forest, garden and home: This
-includes much you would classify as
-rudiments of Physiology, Chemistry,
-Astronomy, Psychology, Paleontology,
-Arithmetic, Language, Geography,
-History and Agriculture, besides
-Cleaning and Cooking. It is accomplished
-however without books or
-tablets, and, much of it outside the
-class-rooms.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“Flowers, fruits, vegetables and
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_27'>27</span>grains; birds, fish, reptiles and many
-other forms of animal life, are germinated
-and developed to maturity;
-nurtured and experimented upon; but
-ever to the benefit of the life involved.”</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“Are your teachers men or women?”</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“Both; always in pairs; the government
-believing that by constant
-and familiar association, only, can
-the present standard of purity and
-liberty be maintained.”</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>A strain of flute-like music interrupted
-us. “A sick call,” explained
-the guides. “You see the flags floating
-from occasional nursery knolls;
-they locate ailing babes, and demand
-attention from any passing mother;
-while every staff-whistle is distinctive
-and quickly recognized by the mother
-whose offspring has special need of
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_28'>28</span>her presence. Knowing this, each is
-free from that harrowing anxiety experienced
-by Earth mothers, who
-must watch constantly over their
-teething or otherwise ailing little
-ones; or suffer untold agonies with
-apprehension, during an absence; thus
-poisoning the nourishment, in preparation,
-which Nature intends to serve
-as a cure for every infantile ill.”</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“But it seems positively cruel to
-force mothers with sick children into
-the field.” We were really indignant
-about it.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>Again those merry children
-laughed in great glee at our innocence:
-“Reinstern mothers are forced
-to—nothing; they are their own sovereigns.
-They have fitted themselves
-for their positions, and their responsibilities
-are the greatest possible—the
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_29'>29</span>reproduction of the race. Their salaries
-are generous, and continue without
-interruption or diminution
-throughout the parental term.”</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“How long is that?”</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“Never more than fifteen years,
-though contingent upon the age of
-marriage. The term limit, in years,
-is from forty to forty five.”</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“How do parents invest their
-earnings?”</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“According to individual tastes
-and preferences. As with you, many
-have beautiful homes, with extensive
-grounds, indulge in Art Galleries,
-Libraries, Theaters, or Conservatories,
-while others devote the later years to
-special sciences or enter the School of
-Physicians.”</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“Then even this hygienic regime
-entails occasional illness?”</p>
-
-<p class='c007'><span class='pageno' id='Page_30'>30</span>“Accidents will always attend
-immaturity and inexperience; Infinite
-Wisdom alone can insure perfect harmony;
-but our physicians are also a
-salaried class, who teach as well as
-heal. Ill health which incapacitates
-members of his families for daily usefulness,
-is recorded against the physician;
-and a succession of such reports
-count to his discredit, even to
-the extent of depriving him of his
-diploma. In such cases, he, through
-the advice of the sages, seeks a less
-responsible avocation, or one for
-which he is better qualified.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“We do not, like you, bribe our
-doctors to neglect their patients or
-retard their cure.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“Our medical course is in three
-departments: Chemistry, Magnetism
-and Materia Medica. The first concerns
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_31'>31</span>the elements and combinations
-forming the physical body of man.
-Magnetism teaches the application of
-these principles and elements to
-the upbuilding and repairing of the
-body, while in Materia Medica we are
-taught to locate and extract these required
-principles from the animal,
-vegetable and mineral world. We
-hope to be physicians, after a time.”</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>This wish was uttered with a
-deep joyousness that told of a riper
-understanding than is expressed when
-the Earth-born youngster, during a
-brief cessation from banister-sliding
-or somersault-turning, exclaims, “I
-am going to be a doctor—a lawyer—or
-a policeman,” and yet there was an
-enthusiasm that was almost a parallel.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“You have not mentioned lawyers.”</p>
-
-<p class='c007'><span class='pageno' id='Page_32'>32</span>“We have none; yours are an
-outgrowth of dishonesty and cruelty;
-a finger pointing to dissolution.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“Your law is a demoralizing human
-rule, through the enforcement of
-which you would compel mankind to
-do what should be in accordance with
-his ardent desire. If he disobeys your
-petty law, you inflict penalties;—even
-daring to shorten his physical existence.
-From the effects of this treatment,
-he, like you, must suffer for
-ages to come, so seriously is his growth
-retarded.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“We, on the other hand, feel
-deeply humiliated by any act of wrong
-among our people, which demands public
-notice; it reflects upon the moral
-atmosphere of the community.”</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“Do your people never, in anger,
-disappointment or unusual depression
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_33'>33</span>or excitement, injure others, or trespass
-upon their rights?”</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“Occasionally;” they admitted,
-sadly.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“And the punishment?” We were
-most curious to learn the treatment
-of evil among the good.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“If it be fully proved, before the
-officials, one has committed a really
-flagrant offense, he is uniformed in
-red, as a symbol of materialistic domination,
-and sent to the School of
-Philosophy, where the Sages meet for
-discussions. Your Socrates was a
-philosopher of their class. There, he
-has the best possible atmosphere in
-which to recognize and correct his
-faults.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“During this term of reformation,
-his parents, if still in the flesh, usually
-wear mourning, from choice, in
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_34'>34</span>recognition of their own shortcomings
-during his conception or earlier
-years.”</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“How long is this term of punishment?”</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“Not punishment; development;
-we consider it the Second Childhood.
-The time varies from one to six
-months of your counting.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“We have only one bad case on
-our records,” they added proudly.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“Are you allowed to state the
-facts?”</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“It is of public record and History:
-A father knocked down his own
-son—because he kicked him.”</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“Kicked his father?”</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“Yes; poor little fellow!”</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“Surely the boy should be punished;—not
-the father?”</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>After a startled glance of indignation,
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_35'>35</span>which quickly faded into pity,
-they continued:</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“Children inherit all physical
-tendencies from their physical parents.
-In the case under discussion, the lad
-received vicious inclinations from the
-father, who had, however, so controlled
-his temper as to successfully pass
-all ante-marriage tests.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“Had he taught that son by example
-the self-discipline he so well
-understood, the boy would never have
-disgraced us.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“Through whose neglect was the
-boy injured? Clearly the father’s.
-The mother was also considered at
-fault, to this extent:</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“Through a mistaken charity, a
-desire to shield her beloved from
-criticism, she had endured, without
-complaint several outbreaks previous
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_36'>36</span>to the one reported; for this she resigned,
-temporarily, her maternal
-rights and colors. Our future generations
-must be protected at any cost.”</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“Then she finally delivered him
-over for the sake of the future?”</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“The offense was committed in
-the field and was reported by the
-Agent, as it should have been by
-whomever witnessed the relapse.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“All feared the most disastrous
-effect upon our community. You
-may not fully understand that such
-manifestations act as carrion, attracting
-from lower atmospheres those
-ravenous thought-creatures, bred by
-evil-doers, and called by some of
-your inspired writers, ‘Elementals’,
-who swarm around unhealthy humanity,
-endangering the welfare of every
-sensitive organism within their reach,
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_37'>37</span>in their senseless frenzy to prolong a
-shadowy and useless existence.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“Bereft of filth, they gradually
-lose their electrical vitality and
-power to harm; and finally disintegrate
-into crude matter.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“This father was uniformed in
-red and delegated to the School of
-Philosophy for one entire season.
-There he was also subjected to the
-influence of most refining music, and
-his reformation was complete; for we
-have not a more patient and conscientious
-father or husband in the city.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“He was restored to his paternal
-colors and is a much better man than
-ever, for his victory over the parasites
-that were sapping his life.”</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>During the conversation, we
-had been slowly traversing the length
-of the valley, noting as we passed,
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_38'>38</span>elastic health and unalloyed happiness
-upon every side. Most strongly
-were we impressed by the vigorous
-girlish beauty of the matrons, who
-were at regular intervals, as fondly
-absorbed in their nursing darlings, as
-the most devoted of Earth mothers.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>During these brief intervals,
-when the Nursery knolls were thronged
-with mothers, attention was called
-to occasional workers, who though
-resting, like the others, from their
-field labors, were busily writing in
-small volumes suspended from their
-girdles.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“Government Agents who keep
-the Time accounts that the mothers
-may not be harassed or disturbed;
-they only of all the field workers are
-not parents.”</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“Why, if salaried and free, are
-they timed?”</p>
-
-<p class='c007'><span class='pageno' id='Page_39'>39</span>“Time is an important factor in
-determining the value of the crops;
-seasons differ in the amount required,
-as with you.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“The sod and soil must at times
-be too cold and damp for these tender
-human germs.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“We need every variation of
-temperature, and are, by this close
-companionship with nature, able to
-absorb the physical elements which
-give us strength and endurance; by
-this very course, we are enabled to
-preserve a youthful vigor to which
-Earth-folk are strangers. During
-the time of physical growth we court
-every opportunity for absorbing Force;
-this, assimilated, we may in later
-years live according to our tastes and
-preferences, as we have then the power
-to attract and adjust whatever may
-be required for recreation.”</p>
-
-<p class='c007'><span class='pageno' id='Page_40'>40</span>We suddenly became conscious
-of an uncomfortable rumbling and
-jarring, similar to the sensations we
-had experienced during the Earth-life,
-from which we had till now seemed
-so widely separated; as this confusion
-ceased, we heard in those sweet tones
-we were rapidly learning to love:</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“We will dine now, if you wish;”
-and simultaneously felt ourselves
-borne rapidly through space and finally
-into a large, airy apartment—an
-ideal dining room.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>We had hardly taken cognizance
-of its many beauties, before we were
-again attacked with the jolting, rocking,
-lurching consciousness of Earth-life,
-and became dimly aware of harsh
-voices unpleasantly near us.——</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>Our guides announced us simply
-as “Voyagers from Earth,” in response
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_41'>41</span>to which the matronly queen who
-presided, greeted us cordially, directing
-us toward capacious easy chairs
-which nearly surrounded the room.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>After several ineffectual efforts
-to rise above the haunting spectres of
-our former life, we were dully conscious
-of being addressed by the host,
-as follows:</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“Your Earth People are in their
-ignorance robbing you of this opportunity;
-being greatly disturbed over
-your absence from the body, which
-they have discovered notwithstanding
-our efforts to hold their attention elsewhere.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“The one poor harassed soul, less
-gross than the rest, upon whose instincts
-we have relied for your safe
-return, has yielded to their importunities
-sooner than we anticipated, and
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_42'>42</span>has now resorted to Prayer. An earnest
-Prayer to the Father from a sincere
-and faithful heart is a Power we
-can not safely combat.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“You must now return; but we
-will try to raise you again from the
-depths, when you are in the quiet of
-your own home, alone, and the prospects
-are favorable.”</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>Deeply disappointed and violently
-struggling against the power that
-would thus wrench us from the happy
-haven into which we had drifted, we
-heard—O, so faintly, as from a great
-distance——</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“Rest easily, Earth-child; you
-are doing yourself only harm. All
-will be made clear in the Good
-Father’s own time.”</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>Then the horrible whistles, the
-jolting of the train, and an indignant
-voice saying:</p>
-
-<p class='c007'><span class='pageno' id='Page_43'>43</span>“Didn’t you see her shiver? Such
-a fuss over nothing! She is coming to,
-all right. Better keep your bottle for
-those that need it. Some doctors think
-that brandy will start or stop the universe.”
-This last in an undertone.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>We opened our eyes very reluctantly,
-to find a red-faced, wrinkled
-and be-whiskered man bending over
-us, with a breath strongly indicative
-of the contents of a bottle held threateningly
-near.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>Pushing it angrily away, we
-exclaimed in a far-from-Reinstern-like
-tone:—</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“Why are you meddling with
-our affairs? We did not want to come
-back yet; we have not seen the
-father’s field;—not even had dinner—and
-things looked so attractive!”</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>He shook his head with a professional
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_44'>44</span>air, and murmured: “Not
-right yet;—better,—decidedly better.”</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>Then we sat up as straight as a
-clothes-pin, and glaring at the passengers
-about our seat rudely demanded:</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“Just trot right off about your
-own affairs, now, all of you; you have
-treated us shamefully, and,” we sniveled
-and wept a little at this point,
-“we don’t even know your names.”</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>The conductor now interposed:
-“Madam, you fainted, and but for the
-kindness of this physician,—”</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“Kindness of fiddlesticks!” we
-interrupted, “we were out of town,
-off on a voyage,—visiting friends,—and
-should have returned in good
-time, if—”</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>The doctor hastily returned to
-his post, while the others with horror-stricken
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_45'>45</span>faces, as promptly retreated.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>Resourceless before their suspicions,
-we relinquished all intentions
-to elucidate, and added, simply:</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“Who thought we were all right
-if left alone?”</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>Whereupon a mild-mannered miss
-of probably sixteen well-invested summers,
-turned toward us to say, modestly:</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“I’ve seen people that way before;
-Aunt Sophronia often is; I don’t
-understand it; but you didn’t look a
-bit dead.”</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>“Dead!” we ejaculated; “We’d
-like to die that way often, every day
-or two. You must have some common
-sense.”</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>Then we straightened up our
-traveling cap, and stared savagely at
-the outside panorama of brown fields,
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_46'>46</span>while we tried to imagine a life of
-love, truth, justice, charity;—among
-idiots.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>Later, we convinced our fellow-passengers
-of our sanity, by expressing
-our grateful appreciation of their
-solicitude; how could they know?—and
-assurance of our complete
-recovery.</p>
-
-<div class='chapter'>
-  <span class='pageno' id='Page_47'>47</span>
-  <h2 id='LOVE' class='c005'><i>LOVE’S DESTINY.</i></h2>
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-<div class='lg-container-b c008'>
-  <div class='linegroup'>
-    <div class='group'>
-      <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_49'>49</span>Where the gray crag kisses the virgin sky,</div>
-      <div class='line'>And the fledgling eagles half-famished cry,</div>
-      <div class='line'>Where the sun’s kind glance warms the cloud to tears,</div>
-      <div class='line'>And the snow-bank clings to the earth for years;</div>
-      <div class='line'>Where the lichens starve and the sad winds mourn,</div>
-      <div class='line'>There, a host of cupids at eve were born.</div>
-    </div>
-    <div class='group'>
-      <div class='line'>They came tumbling out from their rocky nest,</div>
-      <div class='line'>Nor regretful wailed for the rugged breast;</div>
-      <div class='line'>But astride the crest of a stream as blue</div>
-      <div class='line'>As the star-lit sky; with their arrows true,</div>
-      <div class='line'>Downy, sun-tipped wings and the briefest legs,</div>
-      <div class='line'>Just like dear young ducklings released from eggs.</div>
-    </div>
-    <div class='group'>
-      <div class='line'>They are fluttering, splashing in frolic gay,</div>
-      <div class='line'>Whirling here and there in the misty spray;</div>
-      <div class='line'>Now, anon, down dizziest steeps they glide,</div>
-      <div class='line'>All demurely, roguishly, side by side;</div>
-      <div class='line'>In their path, huge bowlders await, but see!</div>
-      <div class='line'>With a somersault they are passed in glee.</div>
-    </div>
-    <div class='group'>
-      <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_50'>50</span>Through a rock-bound glen next they gurgling go.</div>
-      <div class='line'>’Neath caressing, whispering branches, low,</div>
-      <div class='line'>For a splashing romp, undisturbed by fear,</div>
-      <div class='line'>In a broad lake, billowy, deep and clear;</div>
-      <div class='line'>But they’re nearing, blindly, the crumbling edge</div>
-      <div class='line'>Of a ragged, cruel and treacherous ledge;</div>
-    </div>
-    <div class='group'>
-      <div class='line'>While those countless myriads are hurrying in,—</div>
-      <div class='line'>Crowding, racing, chasing from brim to brim:</div>
-      <div class='line'>Hark! With hands clasped over an aching breast,</div>
-      <div class='line'>A poor Soul moans, “Come to me, Love, and rest;</div>
-      <div class='line'>Long and patiently have I watched for you:</div>
-      <div class='line'>Fill my heart and home with yourselves so true.”</div>
-    </div>
-    <div class='group'>
-      <div class='line'>Do you hear them chant, in their rapturous glee,</div>
-      <div class='line'>“Never tires Love, Soul; we are not for thee.</div>
-      <div class='line'>We must on and on, like the water blue;</div>
-      <div class='line'>Bravely wait, work, hope, till your Love finds you.</div>
-      <div class='line'>Danger waits below; you are tempting Death;”</div>
-      <div class='line'>She is calling, still; for, with bated breath,</div>
-    </div>
-    <div class='group'>
-      <div class='line'>Has she watched, benumbed, while a sportive elf</div>
-      <div class='line'>Laughing wildly, recklessly, cast himself</div>
-      <div class='line'>From their midst, to the surging depths below;</div>
-      <div class='line'>And she moans, “Dear Love, I shall miss you so.”</div>
-      <div class='line'>“Love but laughs at dangers; fear not;” they say,</div>
-      <div class='line'>“Fancy not he dies: We all live for aye.”</div>
-      <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_51'>51</span>Right over they tumbled;—she peers down to see—</div>
-      <div class='line'>Not death;—but mad revels of exquisite glee:</div>
-      <div class='line'>Joyous myriads whirled in the dashing spray!</div>
-    </div>
-    <div class='group'>
-      <div class='line'>       ·       ·       ·       ·       ·</div>
-    </div>
-    <div class='group'>
-      <div class='line'>Think ye not love dies in an hour—a day;</div>
-      <div class='line'>’Tis his dim, dull shadow, o’er which men weep,</div>
-      <div class='line'>When a sun-cloud gives to the shadow, sleep;</div>
-    </div>
-    <div class='group'>
-      <div class='line'>But Immortal love, ever close beside,</div>
-      <div class='line'>Through life’s midnight hours will undimmed abide.</div>
-      <div class='line'>Watch and pray, lone Soul, for the love that lasts;</div>
-      <div class='line'>Sighing not o’er shadows another casts;</div>
-      <div class='line'>Lest a passion-cloud should engulf your way,</div>
-      <div class='line'>Till you, helpless and hopeless, drift astray.</div>
-    </div>
-  </div>
-</div>
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-    <li>Silently corrected typographical errors and variations in spelling.
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-    <li>Archaic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings retained as printed.
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