40 THREE KINGDOMS. 



love for the very earth, so that on some sunny day you 

 have wandered off alone, and under the fragrant shade of 

 an ancient pine, have thrown yourself upon her broad 

 bosom, like a tired child; or if, when the wind was bend- 

 ing 1 the long grass, you have lain among the daises, like 

 Robert Falconer, watching your kite floating far up in 

 the blue sky, and wondering what there is beyond the 

 kite, and beyond the sky; or if, on some dark day in 

 December, when gray clouds were skurrying across the 

 sky, you have climbed a hill alone, and from a swaying 

 perch in a leafless beech watched the drifting snow as it 

 wrapped the world in ermine then you may believe that 

 a portion of the spirit that animated Agassiz, and Ed- 

 ward, and Audubon, and White, and Wordsworth, has 

 fallen upon you. 



