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‘BIOGRAPHY. 59
this prayer with a fervent heart. It is the outpouring of
love to Eternal Love. Father,O my Father! grant that
I may always pray to thee thus, with the same devout,
blissful feeling.”
How characteristic of Fredrika’s rich, loving heart and
lively soul are the following lines, written a few days later
in the same journal!
“Love, and thou shalt be happy; love all mankind;
press the whole world to thy heart. Some one will meet
thee with equal love; but even if none should thank thee,
should love thee in return,—oh! still I must love man-
kind, or I should be deeply unhappy.”
“ What a strange thing is often the heart aiak a young
girl! All thoughts, feelings, imaginations are linked to-
gether, are blended with reality, rove which they sport
like a Will-o’-the-wisp. She suffers, enjoys, weeps, smiles,
hopes, despairs at one and the same moment, and all this
with her thoughts alone, without the influence of outward
circumstances. Her soul resembles a magic lantern. The
figures gambol past in pleasing or repulsive forms, rarely
leaving a lasting impression behind. And yet every atom of
her ies is full of feeling ; every pulsation is a joy or a pain.”
4th December. — “ Pray often. Accustom thy thoughts
to follow thy glance up to the bright firmament. It will
give thee a cheerful and heavenly mind.”
10th December. — “ Eternity! Immortality! Celestial
promises! Who can contemplate you without shedding
tears of joy!”
9th February, 1823. —“’To have suffered pain = al-
ways good afterwards. Early discovery of my twenty years’
experience ! ” .
On the Ist of March, the same year, Fredrika wrote in
her diary : —
_ “How stagnant, like a muddy pool, is time to youth drag-
ging on a dull and inactive life.”
- “Tam only twenty-two, and yet I am often tired of the
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