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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Little Rivers by Henry van Dyke: gave ourselves up to the sweetness of that unmeasured life, without
thought of yesterday or to-morrow; we drank the cup to-day held to
our lips, and knew that so long as we were athirst that draught
would not be denied us." --HAMILTON W. MABIE: Under the Trees.
There is magic in words, surely, and many a treasure besides Ali
Baba's is unlocked with a verbal key. Some charm in the mere
sound, some association with the pleasant past, touches a secret
spring. The bars are down; the gate open; you are made free of all
the fields of memory and fancy--by a word.
Au large! Envoyez au large! is the cry of the Canadian voyageurs as
they thrust their paddles against the shore and push out on the
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