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inspiration laying down a new and beneficent ordinance on 

 their behalf. We have not altogether forgotten it even in 

 this sordid and hurrying day. ^"*^^>**V^^\\ \ \ 



" And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt 

 not wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou 

 gather the gleanings of thy harvest. ^v\ 



And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt 

 thou gather every grape of thy vineyard ; thou shalt leave 

 them for the poor and the^tranger : I am the Lord your 

 God." 



How that doctrine would shock 

 barbed- wire generation ! Now I trust that you sweet friend 

 are not poor nor shall you and I be quite strangers, yet may 

 we find many choice things awaiting us in these Levitical 

 comers of the ungleaned fields. So walk with me, I'd talk 

 with thee, of things which were and are to be; of woods and 

 nooks and pools and brooks ; of this to hear and that to see. 

 Some of our treasures have waited coimtless ages to greet us 

 and some fade with the waning sun, but I never think of 

 them as differing in idtimate importance or in abstract 



■*»--^,^ beauty and I am sure that nature wishes us to feel that, "In 

 the world's audience halls the simple blade of grass sits on 

 the same carpet with the sunbeam and the stars at midnight." 

 Many, many will be the things which we shall be permitted 



\ y to see, and many, many will be those which on this trip will 

 escape us, only to be at hand with their charm next time we 

 come; and we shall love them, every tender one, learn to call 



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