The poor, short lone fact dies at the birth. Memory catches it up into her heaven, and bathes it in immortal waters. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

The poor, short lone fact dies at the birth. Memory catches it up into her heaven, and bathes it in immortal waters.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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