THE INSTINCT OF IMMORTALITY.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 4, Issue 87, 24 September 1915, Page 3 (Supplement)

THE INSTINCT OF IMMORTALITY.

You say tli<> soul is nothing but t.ie resultant of the bod.iy powers. Why, then, is my tsoul more luminous v.hen mv bodily powers lies' ll lo fa'l' *V' U ~ te'r is on niv head, but eternal spring ih in my heart. 1 breathe at iho hour the fragrance of the 1 the vio.ets, jnd the roses, as at twenty year>. Hie nearer I approach the end, the piainei [ hear around me the immortal symphonies of the worlds which iiuite me. It its marvelous, yet simple. It is a lauv tale, and it in histoiv. Kur half a century 1 have been writing niy thoughts in prose and in verse, history, philosophy, drama, romance, tr.idition. satire, ode and song; 1 have tried all, but J feel I have not said the thousandth part ot what is in me. When J go down t<> the grave 1 can say like nianv others, "1 h ive finished tn> dav'.s work," but I cannot say, "I have finished my life." My day s work wi beg n -again the next morning. lne tomb is not a blind alley: it is a thoroughfare. It clones on the twilig.it. it opens o:i the dawn.—Victor Hup:o.