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    The Last Christmas Tree An Idyl of Immortality
    The Last Christmas Tree An Idyl of Immortality
    The Last Christmas Tree An Idyl of Immortality
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    The Last Christmas Tree An Idyl of Immortality

    By James Lane Allen

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      The Last Christmas Tree An Idyl of Immortality - James Lane Allen

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      Title: The Last Christmas Tree

             An Idyl of Immortality

      Author: James Lane Allen

      Release Date: May 3, 2013 [EBook #42640]

      Language: English

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      THE LAST CHRISTMAS TREE

      James Lane Allen

      THE LAST CHRISTMAS TREE

      AN IDYL OF IMMORTALITY

      BY JAMES LANE ALLEN

      PORTLAND MAINE

      THOMAS BIRD MOSHER

      MDCCCCXIV

      COPYRIGHT

      JAMES LANE ALLEN

      1914

      TO THOSE

      WHO KNOW THEY HAVE

      NO SOLUTION

      OF THE UNIVERSE

      YET HOPE FOR THE BEST

      AND LIVE FOR IT

      THE LAST CHRISTMAS TREE

      In a somewhat different and in a much briefer form The Last Christmas Tree appeared several years ago in The Saturday Evening Post.

      THE LAST CHRISTMAS TREE

      LIFE on this earth, my children, means warmth. Do not forget that: whatever else it may be, life as we know it is warmth. Every living earthly thing is on fire and every fire is perpetually going out. When the warmth, when the fire, which is within us and which is perpetually going out, goes out for good, that is the end of us. It is the end of us as far as the life which we derive from the planet is ourselves. If our planetary life is our only life, when the planetary fire within us dies out, all of us dies out. If planetary fire be not our only vital flame, vital energy, then planetary dust and ashes

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