Chapter XLVI

In this life we experience "thorn and flower," grief and joy; and the past becomes mercifully shaded as time goes on, otherwise the retrospect would be intolerable. But hereafter all shadow on what has happened will be removed, and all will be "clear from marge to marge;" and the five years of earthly friendship will be the "richest field" in the "eternal landscape."

Yet this would be a limited range for Love, which ought to extend without any circumscription,

"A rosy warmth from marge to marge,"

its expansion interminable.