Memoirs of Margaret Fuller OssoliVol 2 Author:Margaret Fuller Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: EUROPE. LETTEES " I go to prove my soul. 1 see my way, as birds their trackless way In some time, God's good time, I shall arrive He guides me and the bird... more ». In his good time ! Browning. One, who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment, to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for human kind, Is happy as a lover, and attired With sudden brightness, like a man inspired; And, through the heat of conflict, keeps the law In calmness made, and sees what he foresaw." Wordsworth. Italia ! Italia ! 0 tu cui feo la sorte Dono infelice di bellezza, ond' hai Funesta dote d' infiniti guai, Che in fronte scritti per gran doglia porto. Deh, fossi tu men bella, 6 almen piu forte !" Fiucaja. Vol. it. 15 " Oh . not to guess it at the first. But I did guess it, — that is, I divined. Felt by an instinct how it was; — why else Should I pronounce you free from all that heap Of sins, which had been irredeemable ? I felt they were not yours." Browning. "Nests there are many of this very year, Many the nests are, which the winds shall shake, The rains run through and other birds beat down Yours, 0 Aspasia! rests against the temple Of heavenly love, and, thence inviolate, It shall not fall this winter, nor the next." La.ndob. " Lift up your heart upon the knees of God, nosing yourself, your smallness and your darkness In His great light, who fills and moves the world, Who hath alone the quiet of perfect motion." Btaaaat, VIII. EUKOPE. [Ix has been judged best to let Margaret herself tell the story of her travels. In the spring of 1846, her valued friends, Marcus Spring and lady, of New York, had decided to make a tour in Europe, with their son, and they invited Miss Fuller to accompany them. An arrangement was soon made on ...« less