The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864

PART II.

'Du Gemisch von Koth und Feuer!' 'Thou compound of clay and fire!'

Why, O child! art thou not, like other children, riding gayly about on sticks for horses, playing with toys, torturing flies, or impaling butterflies on pins, that the brilliant circles of their dying pangs may amuse thy young soul? Why dost thou never romp and sport upon the grassy...