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LIFE, DEATH, AND IMMORTALITY.

be changed again and again, yet still there is the same stream. It widens over plains, or is prisoned and fouled by towns; always the same stream; but at last

'even the weariest river
Winds somewhere safe to sea!'

When that happens, no drop of the water is lost, but the stream is dead."