INSPIRATION IN NATURE. 29 



with odor of flower and song of bird is his who 

 will but have it. From the city thousands could 

 go once a week and spend a few hours or a day ; 

 but the brawl, the clamor, the artificial pleas- 

 ures of man, are of more consequence in their 

 eyes. They, therefore, remain, shut in, ignorant 

 of asters, golden-rod, and blue gentian noting 

 not the beauty of the berry of the dogwood and 

 wahoo tasting not the luscious flavor of the 

 papaw and black-haw hearing not the en- 

 trancing warble of the indigo bunting and white- 

 throated sparrow feeling not the ripple of the 

 unchecked breeze upon their brow quaffing not 

 the pure, clear water of the wayside spring in- 

 haling not those copious draughts of health- 

 inspiring oxygen, which come to him who roams 

 the woodland pasture or country byway in 

 search of the companionship of nature. 

 Healthy his form, sparkling his eye, and when 

 moving muscles clear his brain and good, pure 

 oxygen incites his cerebral cells to vigorous ac- 

 tion- brilliant, at times, his thought, If the 

 average man would but put aside for the time 

 his lust for gold, and for a few hours each week 



