ON THE CLIFF.

She reflects on the power of love. A cricket and a butterfly settle down

before her: one on a piece of burnt-up turf, one on the dark flat

surface of a rock which the receding tide has left bare. The barren

surfaces are transfigured by their brightness. Just so will love settle

on the low or barren in life, and transform it.

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