ave heaves high and falls again eddying, burying the whole.
Above the drifting wreckage, in the rosy light, fore-shine of sunrise,
are seen the transfigured and glorified forms of Senta and the
Hollander rising from the sea, clasped in each others' arms, and
floating heavenward.

We are always touched in this old world of daily wickedness and
pettiness to come upon stories which seem statements of a popular
ineradicable assurance that love has power to save. It is perhaps
oftenest the love of a woman, clinging pertinaciously to her affection;
but there are legends, too, of men,--who do not save, however, that
we remember, by long fidelity, but by ardour rather in overcoming
obstacles. They kiss the fair enchanted one in the form of a hideous
dragon and she is restored to beauty. One sees the simple philosophy
of such folk-tales. The evil doom is usually the punishment for
sin. The one who loves the person so doomed is innocent. If then
she makes the fate of the sufferer her own, she suffers unjust
punishment, and God, who inclines to mercy, must sooner pardon the
sinner for her sake than condemn the innocent.

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