I feel awakened as from a dream, and like a shadow has my past gone by.

With the verse at the bottom of the picture you gave me, I can say: "'Oh! days that once I used to prize, Are ye forever gone?
The veil is taken from my eyes, And now I stand alone.' "But I would not recall those by-gone days, nor do I stand alone.

No! Out from this life will spring a higher world, of which the past was but a weak, faint shadow." ________________________.