PREFACE. XIU 



Take thee up aud introduce thee 

 To their wives and to their children, 

 And so prove they deem thee worthy 

 Of a place in their affections, 

 Then will he who wrote thee bless thee. 

 Then wilt thou fulfil thy mission. 



Enter schoolrooms, find the schoolboy ; 

 Bid him take thee to the forest, 

 To the streamlet or the meadow ; 

 Bid him lay aside his Virgil, 

 Or his Sallust or his Caesar, 

 To be used again tomoirow ; 

 Bid him read thy hghter pages, 

 Pages scarcely needmg study. 

 Mastered with a single reading ; 

 Teach him gentleness and goodness ; 

 FUl his soul with admiration 

 Of the wonderful creations 

 That surround his heedless footsteps, 

 Forms so beautiful and varied 

 That to know them is to love them : 



