Isaac Newton Lewis

Pleasant Hours in Sunny Lands in a Tour Around the World Isaac Newton Lewis

Bright dreams of youth, In living forms arise. MEMORY, like a perfume, permeates the sense and lovingly draws us to a grateful realization of its fond presence. Never so trivial the occasion, the influence is the same. Before me lies the unconscious agent of such renewed pleasure to-day. It is but an old newspaper, weather-beaten, yellow, and torn, but it speaks to me with more than earthly sweetness of past experience, thought to have been long since forgotten. Rich labyrinths of palms and ferns, clouds of bright and delicately-tinted flowers, from earth to sky, spontaneously rise before my awakening mind in scenes too beautiful but for heaven, and even now fill the mind with wonder and the heart with joy. It is a Calcutta daily, bearing date of Sept. 5, 1887.
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