Journeys through Bookland : a new and original plan for reading applied to the world's best literature for children (1922)
Sylvester, Charles Herbert · Chicago : Bellows-Reeve · leaf 311
ow, said he, this sea that is boundedwith darkness at both ends, and tell me what thoudiscoverest in it. I see a bridge, said I, stand-ing in the midst of the tide. The bridge thouseest, said he, is Human Life; consider it at- 288 The Vision of Mirza tentively. Upon a more leisurely survey of it,… … THE BRIDGE IS HUMAN LIFE genius told me that this bridge consisted at first ofa thousand arches, but that a great flood sweptaway the rest,7 and left the bridge in the ruinouscondition I now beheld it. But tell me further, said he, what thou dis-coverest on it. I see multitudes of people passing 5.…
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