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"These things are a shadow," said Atma, "and a shadow is created by a

fact"

"I join in your prayer," said Bertras that be' Types are not for hiht bounds the possible"

"No," replied Ate than accept it as the end

of our desire The faith of rasped after Truth,

teaches me that if the outward semblance of divine verities lead captive

not only iance, I auilty of idolatry"

"How fair," said Bertraeantry! Whatof whose olden speech of those endoith hearing

to catch its echoes! What harht by the mystery

of heavenly colour! How dull must be our faculties, or how distant the

bliss for which our souls yearn as fro only as

in a ht,

reflects but dilimpses of

eternal possibilities!"

"Therein," said Atma, "may lie the reason why evanescent beauty stirs

usor affinity than things that

remain This has soiven

To glories whose decadence fleet

Has eful earth than heaven; The heart's astir,

And sy fair

Of heavenly hues limned in empyreal bow

Aloft in dewy air, but ere we know

Their place and h things as beauteous stay

What joyous note,

Warbled in bliss of upper air,