Brother Holly, for you as for me loss is our only gain, since thereby we are spared much woe.

Oh! bide here and pray with me.

Why dash yourselves against a rock?
Why labour to pour water into a broken jar whence it must sink into the sands of profitless experience, and there be wasted, whilst you remain athirst ?" "Water makes the sand fertile," I answered.

"Where water falls, life comes, and sorrow is the seed of joy." "Love is the law of life," broke in Leo; "without love there is no life.

I seek love that I may live.