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10 OK1GIN OF THE WAR OF 1653 CHAPTER III. CHAP. The mystery of holy shrines lies deep in human ! nature. For, however the more spiritual minds £hLs. may be able to rise and soar, the common man during his mortal career is tethered to the globe that is his appointed dwelling-place ; and the more his affections are pure and holy, the more they seem to blend with the outward and visible world. Poets, bringing the gifts of mind to bear upon human feelings, have surrounded the image of love with myriads of their dazzling fancies ; hut it has been said that in every country, when a peasant speaks of his deep love, he always says the same thing. He always utters the clear name, and then only says that he ' worships the ground ' she treads.' It seems that where she who holds the spell of his life once touched the earth — where the hills and the wooded glen and the pebbly banks of the stream have in them the enchanting quality that they were seen by him and by her when they were together — there always his mem- ory will cling ; and it is in vain that space inter- vei es, for imagination, transcendent and strong of