Ten Years Later.
"The woods and fields did once alone suffice
To fill the heart with joy. I was not nice
To question Heaven's good gifts, but took the blessing
Just as it came, without or care or guessing.
But with departed youth the splendour fell,
The meads were daisies and not asphodel.
But now the common earth again is bright,
Sweet peace is on the grass and on the flower;
The rainbow spans the fields and gilds the shower,
And sunset glows once more with golden light.
Who hath restored the bright and fairy time?
Who hath lit up the world with morning prime?
Mighty enchanter, Love! the change was thine;
Thou camest, and the world again did bloom;
A light renewed and glory half divine
Showed even beyond the confines of the tomb."
Mr. Hinton said that every great truth is first seen in an imperfect form; then obscured by the perception of its polar-opposite; then seen once more in co-ordination with that opposite. These three stages he called respectively, "Anticipation," "Suppression," and "Perfecting."
