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are heard again ; the old hope returns like 

 a tide, and out of the unseen depths a new 

 life breaks soundless upon the unseen shores 

 and sends its hidden currents into every 

 dried and empty channel and pool. The 

 worn old world has been created anew, and 

 God has spoken again the word out of 

 which all living things grow. In the silence 

 and peace and freshness of this morning 

 hour one feels the inspiration of Nature as a 

 direct and personal gift; the inbreathing, 

 which has renewed the beauty and fertility 

 about him, renews his spirit also. He re- 

 sponds to the fresh and invigorating atmo- 

 sphere with a soul sensitive with sudden 

 return of zest to every beautiful sight and 

 sound. No longer an alien 'in this world 

 which has never known human care and 

 regret, he enters by right of citizenship into 

 all its privileges of unwatched freedom and 

 unclouded serenity. One is not absorbed 

 by the glory of the morning, but set free 

 by it. There are times when Nature per- 

 mits no rivalry ; she claims every thought 

 and gives herself to us only as we give our- 



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-Avai/^v 



