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Show men's farms, yet to this their land-deed give them no title To speak truly, few adult persons can se nature. Most persons do not see the sun At least they have a very superficial seeing. The sun illuminates only the eye of th man, but shines into the eye and the hear of the child. The lover of nature is h whose inward and outward senses are stil truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into th era of manhood & His intercourse wit heaven and earth, becomes part of his dail food. In the presence of nature, a wild de light runs through the man, in spite of rea Sorrows. Nature says,-he is my creature and maugre all his impertinent griefs, h shall be glad with me. Not the sun or th Summe alone but every hou and seaso yields its tribute of delight; for every hou and change corresponds to and authorize a different state of the mind, from breath less noon to grimmest midnight. Nature i a setting that fits equally well a comicor mourning piece. In good health, the air i a cordial of incredible virtue. Crossing bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight under a clouded sky, without having in m 1 Digital Image © 20 Library University of Utah. A rights reserved |