5. "Who does not feel his faith in a resurrection and immortality strengthened by hearing of this? Who
knows what beautiful and winged life, whose egg has been buried for ages under many concentric layers
of woodenness in the dead dry life of society, deposited at first in the alburnum of the green and living
tree, which has been gradually converted into the semblance of its well-seasoned tomb
perchance gnawing out now for years by the astonished family of man, as they sat round the festive
may unexpectedly come forth from amidst society's most trivial and handselled furniture, to
enjoy its perfect summer life at last!"
heard
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