Beauty for Ashes/Part 2
PART II.
THE NEW DOCTRINE;
OR
Beauty.
"The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light; they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined."—Is. ix. 2.
"Welcome Life! The Spirit strives!
Strength returns and hope revives;
Cloudy fears and shapes forlorn
Fly like shadows at the morn.—
O'er the earth there comes a bloom,
Sunny light for sullen gloom,
Warm perfume for vapor cold—
I smell the rose above the mould."
Thomas Hood.