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Letter 2 June 1859, pages 1-5 (Transcriptions Done!)
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water, seems to calm down the tempest of disappointment within. It has always appeared to me the true reading of poetry is the picturing of the scene as it seemed to pass before the author's mind - but I need not have suggested this to you, if I may presume to judge, from what I have seen, through the medium of pen, ink and paper, of the turn of your mind. Now let me quote a stanza or two in the sweet-melancholic strain. The subject is a young lady fading away with Consumption. She loved Music, and requests her friend - When life's sad dream is o'er Its Happiness and use, And nature weak and wearied out Has done with all below, Sit near, and while my breath Comes feebly, let me hear Thy voice repeat that plaintive strain, My dying hour to cheer Sing while my fluttering pulse, Its labor faintly plies; Sing, while my spirit hovers near, And while to God it flies.