The true and not despairing Friend will address his Friend in some such terms as these. “I never asked thy leave to let me love thee,–I have a right. I love thee not as something private and personal, which is your own, but as something universal and worthy of love, which I have found. O, how I think of you! You are purely good, –you are infinitely good. I can trust you forever. I did not think that humanity was so rich. Give me an opportunity to live.
