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That interest of youth; that amazement at the awakening of sensual impulses which clothe themselves in mental forms; of mental necessities which clothe themselves in sensual images; all the reflections upon these, which obscure rather than enlighten us, as the fog covers over and does not illumine the vale from which it is about to rise; the many errors and aberrations springing therefrom, all these the brother and sister shared and endured hand in hand, and were the less enlightened as to their strange condition, as the nearer they wished to approach each other, to clear up their minds, the more forcibly did the sacred awe of their close relationship keep them apart
They not only had no confidence in the divine justice, or the ultimate triumph of virtue over vice, but they had the reverse. They had a mournful conviction that innocence in this vale of tears was everlastingly doomed to suffering; that vice would eternally prove triumphant; and that it was in inward strength and resolution that the only refuge for oppressed virtue was to be found.
The Salmon family moved to Cowbridge in 1796, so that the doctor had lived exactly a century in the lovely and poetic Vale of Glamorgan, in the very heart of which Penllyn Court is situated. Here on his one hundred and sixth birthday a man of over middle height, with still long, flowing hair, Druidical beard and mustache, and bushy eyebrows Dr. Salmon was visited by one who writes:
A dark valley between three mighty, heaven-abiding peaks, that almost seem the Trinity, in some faint earthly symbol. So in this vale of Death, God girds us round; and over all our gloom, the sun of Righteousness still shines a beacon and a hope. If we bend down our eyes, the dark vale shows her mouldy soil; but if we lift them, the bright sun meets our glance half way, to cheer.
Therefore, although her death undoubtedly aroused much interest and comment, no one cared to be present at the obsequies. So the minister came from Elmwood, and being unable to say much that was good or bad of "the woman who had departed from this vale of tears," he confined his remarks to generalities and made them as brief as possible.
The floods in the Vale of Evesham from the Avon and even from my brooks, often converted the adjoining flat meadows into lakes, and they rose so suddenly after heavy rains or the melting of deep snowfalls on the hills, that they were attended with danger to the stock.
"He's a sawed-off specimen with a face like a peachstone; but he said if he put down his regular name, the boys likely would miss his trail." "Mrs. Annabel Green Banks Hesperides Vale," read Jimmie. "Lucky Banks Iditarod and Hesperides Vale. "This looks like my man, sure; but who is Mrs. Green-Banks? His wife or mother?" "Bride," the clerk replied laconically. "It's a sort of overdue honeymoon.
Anthony thought that was beautiful, but mournful; but it could not become mournful between him and Molly: and he whistled a song of the old minne-singer, Walter of the Vogelverde: "Under the lindens Upon the heath." And especially that passage appeared charming to him: "From the forest, down in the vale, Sang her sweet song the nightingale."
I do not want the many and bright examples of those gone before me; but did I want this encouragement, the recent example of a youthful hero a martyr in the cause of liberty who has just died for his country, would inspire me. I have descended into the vale of manhood.
And after it passeth by the sea of Tiberias, and passeth under the hills of Gilboa; and there is a full fair vale, both on that one side and on that other of the same river.
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