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truth only is eternal, – the true in nature and
mankind.

Our time is the time of discoveries – poetry
also has its new California.

"Where does it exist?" you ask.

The coast is so near, that you do not think
that there is the new world. Like a bold
Leander, swim with me across the stream:
the black words on the white paper will waft
you – every period is a heave of the waves.

It was in the library’s saloon. Book-shelves
with many books, old and new, were ranged
around for every one; manuscripts lay there in
heaps; there were also maps and globes.
There sat industrious men at little tables, and
wrote out and wrote in, and that was no easy
work. But suddenly, a great transformation
took place; the shelves became terraces for the
noblest trees, with flowers and fruit; heavy
clusters of grapes hung amongst leafy vines,
and there was life and movement all around.

The old folios and dusty manuscripts rose

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