dawn-dew

Updated: May 18, 2025

At any rate, as I look back upon my father's life of constant labor and many baffled hopes, there are at least two bright lights upon the scene. He had the comfort of religious faith, and the double joy of the scholar and of the enthusiast for letters. He would not have bartered these great things, these seeming phantoms Eternal as the recurrent cloud, as air Imperative, refreshful as dawn-dew

Mrs. Humphry Ward - A Writer's Recollections — Volume 2