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sion of it, and my child-wife was the gayest there.
But, sometimes, when I took her up, and felt that she was
lighter in my arms, a dead blank feeling came upon me, as
if I were approaching to some frozen region yet unseen, that
numbed my life. I avoided the recognition of this feeling
by any name, or by any communing with myself; until one
night, when it was very strong upon me, and my aunt had
left her with a parting cry of ‘Good night, Little Blossom,’ I
sat down at my desk alone, and cried to think, Oh what a fa-
tal name it was, and how the blossom withered in its bloom
upon the tree!