Is it not so with that lightning-stricken oak?
And what art can restore to its exquisite loveliness this statue of Hope, thrown down by the ruthless hand of the unsparing tempest?
Moreover, is there human vitality in the sunshine and fructifying dew?
Can they put life into the dead?
"No--no--my children.

And take the lesson to heart.

Outward tempests but typify and represent the fiercer tempests that too often desolate the human soul.

In either case something is lost that can never be restored.

Beware, then, of storms, for wreck and ruin follow as surely as the passions rage.".