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In the light of closing day the future's picture was unblurred. They loved their hour then as true workers love it; it was good to sink with the day to the half lights of rest and peace. Now it was all different, but they clung to their love for it still.
For our future's sake may everybody remember, may nobody forget! What the news was upon a certain forenoon memorable to me, I do not recall, and this is of no consequence; good or bad, the stream of by-passers clotted thickly to read it as the man chalked it line upon line across the bulletin board.
Voluptuousness: to the rabble, the slow fire at which it is burnt; to all wormy wood, to all stinking rags, the prepared heat and stew furnace. Voluptuousness: to free hearts, a thing innocent and free, the garden-happiness of the earth, all the future's thanks-overflow to the present.
"You know, my dear friend, you know: To fools alone the future's smile unchangeable appears, For Friday's laughter Sunday's sun may change to bitter tears." "It is Sunday with you, my dear sir." "But I am not at the end of my life nor at the end of my energy, and I assure you that my energy makes me capable of many things." "I do not doubt it; I know what energy can do.
Not for Pauline's sake, but for her own, now that she knew what she knew, she saw it was necessary that death should be robbed of its sting and the grave resign its victory. Did Pauline acquiesce? She said not so how could she dare, she that was dying without hope? but there was a lambent gleam in her sunken eye, as of a ray of the future's sunshine playing upon it.
I quote the concluding stanzas: Though deep in mire, wring not your hands and weep: I lend my arm to all who say "I can"; No shamefaced outcast ever sank so deep But he might rise and be again a man! Dost thou behold thy lost youth all aghast? Dost reel from righteous retribution's blow? Then turn from blotted archives of the past, And find the future's pages white as snow. Art thou a mourner?
Herminia took her own point of view so instinctively indeed, lived so wrapped in an ideal world of her own and the future's, that Alan was often quite alarmed in his soul when he thought of the rude awakening that no doubt awaited her.
Others will doubtless follow who will make a richer music, commensurate with the future's richer life, but such democracy as is ours stands here proclaimed, just as such feudalism as is still ours stands proclaimed in the Erie County Bank just across the way.
"Now the evil past is finished with its fears and battles and before our feet, lit by moonbeams, stretches the Future's shining road leading us to the mystery in which all roads begin and for an hour are lost again. Now, too, our separations end in a perfect unity that perchance we have known before and shall know again in ages to be born and lands revisited.
"You know, my dear friend, you know: To fools alone the future's smile unchangeable appears, For Friday's laughter Sunday's sun may change to bitter tears." "It is Sunday with you, my dear sir." "But I am not at the end of my life nor at the end of my energy, and I assure you that my energy makes me capable of many things." "I do not doubt it; I know what energy can do.
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