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the dark, only make long shoots, and refuse to seek their flower. There was a time when one such fact would have made my day brilliant with thought. But now I seek the divine rather in Love than law. Ms. (W. H. C.) If even these simpler thoughts show a tendency to link themselves with something a little farfetched and fantastic, we must remember that this was a period when German romance was just invading us; when Carlyle was translating the fantasy-pieces of Tieck, Hoffmann, and Musaeus; and when some young Harvard students spent a summer vacation in rendering into English the mysteries of Henry of Ofterdingen, by Novalis. Margaret Fuller took her share in this; typified the mysteries of the soul as Leila, in the Dial, and wrote verses about herself, under that name, in her diary:-- Leila, of all demanding heart By each and every left apart; Leila, of all pursuing mind From each goal left far behind; Strive on, Leila, to the end, Let not thy native courage bend; Strive