ii.
" Many a thrill
Of kinship I confess to with the powers
Called Nature : animate, inanimate,
In parts or in the whole, there's something there
Man-like, that somehow meets the man in me."
Browning.
"For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field : and
the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee."
Job v. 23.
" What if Earth
Be but the shadow of Heaven, and things therein
Each to the other like more than on earth is thought ?"
Milton : " Paradise Lost."
" Nature ever faithful is
To such as trust her faithfulness.
When the forest shall mislead me,
When the night and morning lie,
When sea and land refuse to feed me,
'Twill be time enough to die."
Emerson : " Woodnotes."
" Succory to match the sky,
Columbine with horn of honey.
Scented fern, and agrimony,
Clover, Catchfly, adder's-tongue,
And brier-roses,
Emerson : " The Humblebee."