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"'I see that the rapids in Motala stream begin to draw wheels, said Ulvåsa-lady and now two bright red spots came to her cheeks, for she began to be impatient 'I hear hammers resound in Motala, and looms clatter in Norrköping. "'Yes, that's good to know, said the peasant, 'but everything is perishable, and I'm afraid that even this can be forgotten, and go into oblivion.
Sometimes, in its bold and not very delicate way, the Mirror for Magistrates is impressive still from its lofty moral tone, its gloomy fatalism, and its contempt for temporary renown. As we read its sombre pages we see the wheel of fortune revolving; the same motion which makes the tiara glitter one moment at the summit, plunges it at the next into the pit of pain and oblivion.
But all these things are passed away, and are buried in the gulf of oblivion. A thousand tales, each more wonderful than the other, marked the year as it glided away. Every valley had its fairies; and every hill its giants. No solitary dwelling, unpeopled with human inhabitants, was without its ghosts; and no church-yard in the absence of day-light could be crossed with impunity.
A night's sleep, the sovereign remedy for the smaller vexations of life, had no effect on it. I awoke to a renewed consciousness of the woful fact. I carried it with me into all companies, into all occupations. Hardly anything had power to cause me even a few minutes' oblivion of it. For some months the cloud seemed to grow thicker and thicker.
In architecture, the severely straight and plain line of the ancient Greek temples or the elegant gentle curve of the Roman dome was substituted for the fanciful lofty Gothic. A rounded arch replaced the pointed. And the ancient Greek orders Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian were dragged from oblivion to embellish the simple symmetrical buildings.
His pale, tired face was dimly visible in the hazy starlight and one wondered at the peaceful serenity. The last boot clattered loudly on the floor, the last rattle of a rifle placed by the owner's side, the last long-drawn sigh of relief ... Silence. Above them all Woden wove the magic spell Oblivion, the Rest of the war-worn warrior.
The Roman pride never shows itself more conspicuously throughout all history, than in the alienation of heart which inevitably followed any great and continued outrages upon his own majesty, committed by their emperor. Cruelties the most atrocious, acts of vengeance the most bloody, fratricide, parricide, all were viewed with more toleration than oblivion of his own inviolable sanctity.
The mother that should guard and guide her child, is blind to everything save that he is rich. Froth and mud! Froth and mud!" Unable to endure his thoughts, he went to his room and found oblivion in the stupor of intoxication. On reaching the end of the long piazza, Sibley led Ida to a veranda little frequented at that hour, saying, as he did so: "Let us get away from prying eyes.
For if these things are in your possession, and abounding, they will render you neither inactive nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. But he that hath no possession of these things, is blind, dim-sighted, sinking into oblivion of his purification from the sins of his former days.
However we may think of him, he was great for a moment, yet however great we may think him, he was little in all but his first dream. Let him have some honour for that, and much merciful oblivion for the rest.
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