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pared. I ask nothing better than to 

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 and lisping' warblers overhead, and 

 hear from the seclusion of the thicket 

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this primeval voice, so wild, so preg- 

 nant with the life, the new hope and 

 all the characteristicness and pro- 

 phetic meaning" of the burgeoning 

 woods. 



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