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which hoped and planned the energy of a 

 Newton, a Franklin the wisdow of a Solomon 

 the genius of a Shakespeare is mingled with 

 that which has given action of muscle to the 

 serpent or power of song to the nightingale. 



A small gray moth flutters to the grass beside 

 me. In a few short weeks the potent energy, 

 with which now it may move, or see, or smell, 

 will have passed on into the ether beyond. A 

 giant oak spreads its branches above me and its 



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leaves shelter me from the all-powerful rays of 

 the sun. Through the stomata of those leaves 

 the rays of heat and light are passing and are 

 being stored by the action of the chlorophyll and 

 protoplasm to be transmitted to bole and branch, 

 to twig and acorn. In a few weeks that action 

 will cease; the leaves will wither and fall and 

 the energy which they now possess will pass into 

 the great blue o'er-hanging dome. Thus with 

 the power of work or thought possessed by all 

 animate life ; each form must yield to the scythe 

 of time and become forever a creature of the 

 past. 



Nature association with plant and animal 



