Sigh not in vain for what can never be, the glories of the morn depart as wanes the day. So with each succeeding race to come the Christian Heaven or the Heathen Hell will but live in the dead words of memory. Every generation a higher conception grasps of Creation's Laws the CAUSE DIVINE of LIFE. So take the real, no matter what 'tis styled, whether GOD, JEHOVAH, CHRIST, or BUDDHA, DJAINA, BRAHM. It is the same the sages say, though called by various names, and those who stand the PATH to bar, Which unto that TEMPLE of SUPREME PEACE leads, are but the wanton enemies of GOD and MAN. 14 Look around and note what in all nature sighs of self: Willingly she yields the bounty of her love, Spring unto Summer, Summer to Autumn pledged; Winter that Chariot of Sorrow to the Steeds of Spring is yoked fast. Live as it were in this sorrow, from its conquest comes the reward; what ended last night in tempest will with the dawn become calm. That for which self in sorrow sighs, would surely if gratified sting, for real prayer cannot be offered, till the [13]HEART FROM DESIRE HAS BEEN FREED. Hold thyself as the rose its petals, which when bloomed, casts its treasures of beauty and perfume, into the GARDEN called EARTH. [13] Selfishness stands in the way of spiritual supplication; the prayers for the things which in themselves are forever changing cannot be profitable to any one, but the prayers which spring from the heart for its emancipation are the prayers which count. 15 Learn then in life from uselessness and use, and cast not aside OPPORTUNITY, YOUTH'S GOLDEN CROWN. For they who shun such moments like desert wastes become, which must be dug and watered again and yet again, Before the grain will start and bring forth well nourished fruit. 16 Vain are the worldly desires upon which men set their hearts: like a fool who in a mirror looks and wisdom there perceives, So do the desires of men deceive them, for all CREATED THINGS do surely perish. And though the like may prosper for awhile, there comes unerringly the fate to all structures that upon the sands are built! They from sight for aye do pass away. 17 Think not this life of joy and woe the only life there is to know? It is but here our earthly task, which when completed, fades from view, when its destined hour arrives, INTO THAT PEACE WHICH FOR ETERNITY ENDURES. 18 [14]The Courts wherein the KING of SPLENDOR holds full sway, betwixt the EAGLE and the BULL and where the LION and the MAN do play; HE there glories and drinks deep each day at noon, then falling from HIS throne is speeded to HIS doom. This is the SPARKLING WINE of which all on earth may drink, that brings the harvest to the barn, And is that GREAT CAUSE OF LIFE which none can turn, nor yet its harmony destroy.