1. To think of it !

To think of time — of all that retrospection !

To think of to-day, and the ages continued hence- forward !

2. Have you guessed you yourself would not continue ?

Have you dreaded those earth-beetles ?

Have you feared the future would be nothing to you?

3. Is to-day nothing ? Is the beginningless past nothing ?

If the future is nothing, they are just as surely nothing.

4. To think that the sun rose in the east ! that men and women were flexible, real, alive ! that everything was alive !

To think that you and I did not see, feel, think, nor bear our part !

To think that we are now here, and bear our part !

5. Not a day passes — not a minute or second, without an accouchment!

Not a day passes — not a minute or second, without a corpse!

6. The dull nights go over, and the dull days also.

The soreness of lying so much in bed goes over,