Peter Jones an Autobiography Stage 1 Author:Peter Jones General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1848 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: CHAP. VI. THE DELUGE OF DOUBT. " Mysterious Night! when onr first Parent knew Thee, from report divine, and heard thy name, Did he not tremble for this lovely Frame, This glorious canopy of Light and Blue ? Yet 'neath a curtain of translucent dew, Bathed in the rays of the great setting Flame, Hesperus, with the Host of Heaven, came, And lo ! Creation widened hi man's view. Who could have thought such Darkness lay concealed Within thy beams, O Sun! or who could find, Whilst fly, and leaf, and insect stood revealed, That to such countless Orbs thou mad'st us blind! Why do we then shun Death with anxjous strife ? If Light can thus deceive, wherefore not Life ?" Key. Blanco White. Peter Jones had been reading an account of the terrible engagements on the banks of the Sutlej, the defeat of the Sikhs, and the occupation of Lahore by the British troops. Anxious to get some idea of the remote country where these scenes had taken place, he procured a map, and gazed over it. Now, for the first time, did a dim consciousness of the vast extent of India break in upon him. His eye wandered from Cape Comorin, the extreme point of the peninsula, up to the great range of the Himalayan Mountains, from whence flow down the mighty rivers that water the continent, the Brahmaputra, the Ganges, the Indus, and their many tributaries or companion streams; and as he was searching for Lahore, a friend, who overlooked him in his occupation, tookhis finger, and laying it on Cashmere, said, " There was the site of Paradise, and the cradle of the human race." The first feeling of Peter Jones, was that...« less