VI

I have just alluded to the light which emanates from the human heart and

illumines everything which surrounds it.... I want to talk with thee

about that time when that gracious light burned in my heart.--Listen ...

but I imagine that thou art sitting in front of me, and gazing at me

with thine affectionate but almost severely-attentive eyes. O eyes never

to be forgotten! On whom, on what are they now fixed? Who is receiving

into his soul thy glance--that glance which seems to flow from

unfathomable depths, like those mysterious springs--like you both bright

and dark--which well up at the very bottom of narrow valleys, beneath

overhanging cliffs?... Listen.

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