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" nature poetry " is of comparatively recent 

 growth. It is to be hoped that we shall never 

 have less nature poetry that expresses the larger 

 moods ; but we must have more that is specific 

 as to natural history facts, and which will still 

 be poetry. 



The individual seems sometimes to recapitu- 

 late the development of the race : as each of us 

 grows old and conventionalities lose their 

 meaning and the small voices make a stronger 

 appeal, we are conscious that we have had 

 Wordsworth's experience : 



"In youth from rock to rock I went, 

 From hill to hill in discontent, 

 Of pleasure high and turbulent, 



Most pleased when most uneasy ; 

 But now my own delights I make, 

 My thirst from every rill can slake, 

 And gladly Nature's love partake 



Of thee, sweet Daisy ! " 



Industry is poetic. 



It is often said that as this is a practical 

 age, with industrialism extending everywhere, 



