You may tear apart the baby’s rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, Anothernewbbaccount, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding.
No Nessie! Thank God! he lives, and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, Anothernewbbaccount, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.
9 Likes
