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pass away - and Beauty comes forth so
fitfully - with such sweet promise - is it
not an emblem of the Soul bursting the
[ailments ?] of old age - and responding in
its own native life to the call of the Maker?
I have now closed my visit to Boston
and do not know that I shall again
leave Salem till next winter - I shall
not be able therefore to go and see
you & tell you about the conversations
as you desired me to do - & indeed I
would do no justice to them in a letter -
But they were very successful - The tone
of the whole class was so modest and
docile - & refined - & dignified - & every
thing was so elegant - about Miss [Jules ?] .
Some foolish reports have been made
of things said - never said - etc - as is
usual in our society; but much more
prejudice has been disarmed than
strengthened. I am confident, and
I feel as if there were no member
of it who does not feel with more
sensibility than when they began - all
the motives for a noble & aesthetic
life - without any extravagance or
desire to change any thing but the spirit
with which we live into something con-
tinually more disinterested, beautiful &
desirous. But these are vain words - unless
you know particulars & these cannot be
written in a letter -
There is one thing I want to speak about