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2 How many times the seas have ebbed flowed with their white breaking waves around the edges of the Continents islands in
this same of years. How many times the sky has been light dark, and the ground between us been shining with rain, and sun
and snow; and how many times the flowers have bloomed, but for a that a' that - you seem just the same to me, time space illegible
hide you less than the thinnest veil. Marvelous indeed is the permanence of the impressions of those sunrise days - more enduring
than granite mountains. Thought all the landscapes I have looked into - with all this wealth of forests, rivers, lakes glaciers,
happy living faces, your face janet is still seen as clear kindly outlined as on the day I went away on my long walk. 3
Aye, the auld lang syne is indeed young, times seems of no avail to make use old except in minor? outer aspects. Today you
appear the same little fairy girl folliwng me in my walks with short steps as best you can stopping now then to gether butter-
cups, anemones esignemas? , sometimes taking my hand in climbing over a fallen tree, threading your way through tall grasses
ferns, pushing through very small spaces in thickets of under -brush. Surely you must remember those holiday walks, and also
your coming into my dark room with light when I was blind, and waht light has filled me since that time I am sure you will
be glad to know. The richest illegible gold flooring these Cal valleys, the spiritual Alpenglow? steeping the high peaks,
silver light on the sea, the white glaciers illegible