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Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No IV, April
by Various

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Title: Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No IV, April 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy

Author: Various

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THE

CONTINENTAL MONTHLY:

DEVOTED TO

LITERATURE AND NATIONAL POLICY.

VOL. III.--APRIL, 1863.--No. IV.

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THE WONDERS OF WORDS.

Every nation has its legend of a 'golden age'--when all was young and fresh and fair--'comme les couleurs primitives de la nature'--even before the existence of this gaunt shadow of Sorrow--the shadow of ourselves--that ever stalks in company with us;--an epoch of Saturnian rule, when gods held sweet converse with men, and man primeval bounded with all the elasticity of god-given juvenility:

('Ah! remember, This--all this--was in the olden Time long ago.')

And even now, in spite of our atheism and our apathism, ami

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