LOOKING TOWARD SUNSET.

FROM

SOURCES OLD, NEW, ORIGINAL
AND SELECTED.

From Sources Old and New, Original
and Selected.

BY L. MARIA CHILD.

"When the Sun is setting, cool fall its gleams upon the earth, and
the shadows lengthen; but they all point toward the Morning,"

JEAN PAUL RICHTER.

"I am fully convinced that the Soul is indestructible, and that its
activity will continue through eternity. It is like the Sun,

which, to our eyes, seems to set in night; but it has
in reality only gone to diffuse its ligh

elsewhere."- GOETHE.

EIGHTEENTH EDITION.

BOSTON:
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY.
The Riverside Press, Cambridge.

1887.

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HARVARD
COLLEGE
LIBRARY

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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1864, by

L. MARIA CHILD,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts