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Excerpt from Echoes of Childhood: Old Friends in New Costumes, for the Risen and the Rising Generation
Oh what a tangled web we weave When first we practise to deceive. Peter Parley says: By a beautiful alchemy of the heart, the Clouds of early life appear afterward to be only accessories to the universal Springtide of pleasure. In early life all nature is poetry. Childhood and youth are indeed one continuous poem. In most cases this ecstasy of emotion and conception passes away without our special notice. A large portion of it dies out from the memory, but pages are written upon the heart in lines of light and power that cannot be effaced. These become woven into the texture of the soul, and give character to it for time, perchance for eternity. The whole fountain of the mind, like some mineral spring reaching to the interior elements of the earth, is imbued with ingredients which make its current sweet or bitter forever. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
