' The course of Nature is the art of God." 



'' Hear ye not the hum of mighty workings ?" 



Young. 



Keats. 



" Lovely indeed the mimic works of art, 

 Btit Nature's -works far lovelier.'' 



COWPER. 



" Nature hath made nothing so base, but can 

 Read some instruction to the li'isest man." 



Aleyn. 



'' If thy heart be right, then will every creature be to thee a 

 mirror of life and a book of Iioly doctrine." 



Thomas a Kempis. 



" O Nature I bare thy loving breast 

 And give thy cltild one hour of rest, 

 One little hour to lie unseen 

 Beneath thy scarf of leafy green." 



Oliver Wendell Holmes. 



" He liked the well-ivhecVs creaking tongue — 

 He liked the thrush that stopped and sung — 

 He liked the drone of flies among 



His netted peacJies ; 

 " He liked to watch the sunlight fall 

 Athivart his ivied orchard wall ; 

 Or pause to catch the cuckoo's call 



Beyond the beeches." 



Austin Dobson. 



