" The course of Nature is the art of God."
Young.
" Hear ye not the hum of mighty workings ?"
Keats.
" Lovely indeed the mimic works of art,
But Nature's works far lovelier."
Cowper.
" Nature hath made nothing so base, but can
Read some instruction to the wisest man."
Aleyn.
" If thy heart be right, then will every creature be to thee a
mirror of life and a book of holy doctrine."
Thomas a Kempis.
" 0 Nature ! bare thy loving breast
And give thy child one hour of rest,
One little hour to lie unseen
Beneath thy scarf of leafy green."
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
" He liked the well-wheel's creaking tongue—
He liked the thrush that stopped and sung—
He liked the drone of flies among
His netted peaches;
" He liked to watch the sunlight fall
Athwart his ivied orchard wall;
Or pause to catch the cuckoo's call
Beyond the beeches."
Austin Dobson.