ii. "A man's task is his life preserver." Emerson. "Let us create the faculty of wonder, the most glorious and "least developed of human powers." Sir Francis Acland. "That I may see the spurge upon the wall, "And hear the nesting-birds give call to call, "Keeping my wonder new, "That I may have a body fit to mate "With the green fields, and stars, and streams in spate, "And clean as clover dew." John Drinkwater.