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Updated: May 28, 2025
"In heaven, the sun shone upon us; upon earth the cold moonbeams unite us; but the sunshine will soon come again." Anna felt that her letter had made Gotleib very happy; and she bent her head lovingly on his manly breast. Oh! to him, the desolate forlorn one, how thrilling was the first caress of the maiden! His lips touched her soft white brows with a delicious new joy.
And Gotleib, who was at first designed by his relatives to spend his days over the shoemaker's awl and last, at length found himself, by his own ardent exertions and the helpful kindness of others, a student in the University. This was to him a most pure gratification not because of a love of learning, not because of ambition, to attain a position before his fellow-men.
A careful glance, by daylight, around the humble apartment, revealed to Gotleib that Anna worked with her delicate, white, lady-looking hands, for the support of her dying mother.
The little Lina thus born into the very sphere of love, seemed ever a living joy. The father's wisdom guided the mother's tender love, and the little one was good and unselfish and so gay in the infantile innocence and grace of her being, that oftentimes the young mother, leaning on the father's bosom, would whisper, "Gotleib, she is indeed an angel of God."
But Gotleib! what an Eden those flowers made of his chamber! with what a joy he returned to it after hours of absence; it seemed as if they brought him into contact with the sphere of a beloved existence. He examined them with delight, and could not avoid covering them with kisses.
When the morning came, Gotleib awakened with a delicious sense of enjoyment in life with a looking forth into the events of the day, that he had never before experienced. He hastened through his morning duties with an elasticity of spirit and hope that was altogether new to him.
Then Gotleib held up the newly-born Lina, and the mother's lips touched the soft cheek of the tiny little one with a living rapture, as if all of Heaven were embraced in this heart-possession. And Gotleib knelt by the bedside, and thanked God for the beautiful gift of love with a pious awe and holy joy large tears stood in the eyes of Anna.
And his whole being went forth to her as he read the tender revealings. She wrote: "Gotleib! my heart would fain speak to thine. It longs to say gratefully, 'I love thee, thou heaven-sent one. And I would tell thee of a dream that came to me last night in my heart's beautiful happiness. "I was reading aloud to my mother in the book you lent me.
I dreamed that I was in a quite heavenly place yet the place was as nothing it was the state for I sat with an infant in my arms a bright innocent little one and, thou, dearest Gotleib, knelt beside me; and an angel-woman stood near us, in a soft heavenly glory, and said, in low musical, spirit-words 'Behold the fruit of the union of good and truth. And then, methought, thou didst embrace me with a new joy of love, and whispered, 'an angel of God is born of us. This little one is the dream-child, dear Gotleib."
She was enthroned in his inmost heart, to be for ever treasured as the highest and best gift of God. It was evening when he next stood beside her. The mother slept, and Anna and Gotleib stood in the moonlit window. Few, and softly whispered, were his loving words to her. But she smiled in a oneness of thought, when he said,
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