2903527Beauty for Ashes — Part 2Benjamin Fiske Barrett

PART II.




THE NEW DOCTRINE;

OR

Beauty.


"The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light; they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined."—Is. ix. 2.


"Welcome Life! The Spirit strives!
Strength returns and hope revives;
Cloudy fears and shapes forlorn
Fly like shadows at the morn.—
O'er the earth there comes a bloom,
Sunny light for sullen gloom,
Warm perfume for vapor cold—
I smell the rose above the mould."
Thomas Hood.