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house melody, like a Sabbath hymn. Perhaps we choristers, strung up to the singing and therefore to the seeing pitch are peculiarly sensitive to the symbolizations of the human features; and you must not think it mere hyperbole or extravaganza when I has that chancing upon such in the highway and the street, I have often been sorely tempted to accost persons with such strange talk as - "Friend, whoever you are or whatever your station I know not. But give me leave to love you; for in my heart I crown you exceedingly, recognizing your sovereignty and your lordship over the manors of my soul." But what false and narrow limitations do our conventional galvanisms miscalled life impose on the large intentions of the generous and believing soul; for were you or I to follow the scout of the spiritual instinct, speaking to a stranger words similar to those above used, the wise and proper world, offended at such trespass on decorum, would with an epigram reduce to an absurdity our heroic sentiment, and shrug pitying shoulders at our lamentable madness.