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CHAPTER XIII.

SPIRITUAL HINTS.

A curtain Difficulty is,
Meeting and hindering the gaze;
Rise, and lift it with your hand,
Then the eye may look beyond:
What to Thought a veil must prove,
That an action may remove;
Thus by Doing you shall know
What it is you have to do.

[If thy mind be like a tree, which roots as it grows]

If thy mind be like a tree, which roots as it grows,
And thy heart be like a river, which widens as it flows,
Then thy will may be a wind, which strengthens as it blows.