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flats where lie the golden host of daffodils, the lady- 

 smocks, and snake-spotted fritillaries ; we see him 

 bend his wa)- to the field of bluebells, the hill of 

 primroses that with 



" their infinilie 

 Make a terrestrial gallaxie 

 As the smal starres do the skie ; " 



we follow him to the tangled thicket with its 

 meandering walks carpeted with anemones and hung 

 over with sweet-scented climbers ; to the sombre 

 boskage of the wood, where the shadows leap from 

 their ambush in unexpected places and the brown 

 bird's song lloats upon the wings of silence : to 

 the green dell with its sequestered pool edged round 

 with alders, and willow-herb, and king-fern, and 

 mountain-ash afire with golden fruit : to the corn- 

 field " a-flutter with poppies " : to the broad -terraced 

 downs — its short, springy turf dotted over with 

 white sheets of thorn-blossom : to the leaping, 

 shining mountain-tarn that comes foaming out of the 

 wood : to the pine-grove with its columned black- 

 ness and dense thatch of boughs that lisp the 

 message of the wind, and " teach light to counterfeit 

 a gloom " ; to the widespread landscape with its 

 undulating forest, its clumps of foliage, its gleams of 

 white-beam, silver-birch, or golden yew, amid the 

 dark blue of firs and hollies ; its emerald meadows, 

 yellow gorse-covers and purple heather ; the many 

 tones of leafage in the spring and fall of the )ear. 



And here I give but a few random sketches of 

 Nature, taken almost at random from the [portfolio of 



