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(1851) [MARC] Author: H. C. Andersen
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You tremble as you see the Almighty, who
reveals Himself in ail loving-kindness – that
Creator, according to man’s expression, whose
understanding and heart are one – you tremble
when you know that he has elected you to
immortality.

I know it in the faith, in the holy, eternal
words of the Bible. Knowledge lays itself like
a stone over my grave, but my faith is that
which breaks it.

Now, thus it is! The smallest flower
preaches from its green stalk, in the name of
knowledge – immortality. Hear it! the
beautiful also bears proof’s of immortality, and with
the conviction of faith and knowledge, the
immortal will not tremble in his greatest need;
the wings of prayer will not droop: you will
believe in the eternal laws of love, as you
believe in the laws of sense.

When the child gathers flowers in the fields
and brings us the whole handful, where one is
erect and the other hangs the head, thrown as
it were among one another, then it is that we

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