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312 SKETCHES.
This glorious, eternal flower, fed by heaven’s purest dew,
is in reality very rare. I have seen it growing in the silent
sanctuary of the breast of a few noble people, there enno-
bling and glorifying every thing. I have seen it in a few
earthly homies create a paradise. Yes, it 7s found on earth,
this flower; I know it and I feel it.
But what we do not unfrequently see, is a kind of love in
idleness, blooming for one short summer and then wither-
ing away ; some passion-flowers with four and twenty hours
of life; and a number of love-anemones, which the spring
sun-calls into life, which come in May and depart in May,
and about all of which trifles the world makes a great fuss ;
but what we see much more frequently is the grassy or
ploughed pasture-land within or without doors, without any
love-anemones at all.
And then also the novel writers have woven round the
. world a net of golden threads, on which man dances merrily
along. ‘These life-threads meet, resist, follow, or cross each
other incessantly ; one finds everywhere complications
and dénowement, and consequently interest; nothing dis-
jointed; nothing fragmentary; nothing of the knots of the
life-thread; nothing of this melancholy “ we sit where we
sit,’ which so often occurs in reality: on the contrary, one
sees always progression, in prosperity as well as in adversity ;
always a contact of man with his fellow-men, full of interest ;
and I will wager with you, young maiden with rosy cheeks,
with you, young man with downy chin, that you believe
you cannot take a single step in this world of ours, without
encountering people who care for you; yes, they do, as the
spider cares for the fly or the butterfly for the rose. You
may, it is true, probably now and then create some interest
in this way; perchance frequently meet with people who
ask what value you have —in money; but what you will
meet with much more frequently is a number of peo-
ple who each of them look after their own selves, and
their bag and baggage, but who do not care for each other,
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