re-gain

Updated: May 12, 2025

If only we could study it more we might re-gain, from the contemplation, some of our own lost innocence, and, when we come to die, go to our Maker, like Thackery's immortal Col. Newcombe, with our hearts "as a little child's." But "Ginx's Baby" is not an idyl. It is a tragedy.

William Cowper Brann - Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10