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Nature Study in the Poets. Arranged for school use by Mary Roenah Thomas 

 (teacher in the Hancock School, Boston). To store up in the memory choice passages 

 of literature whence they maybe drawn for one's own satisfaction and the good of one's 

 friends is an important part of a true culture. It is a life-long pleasure and a real advant- 

 age to have thus ever at hand the means of self-expression through the medium of the 

 language of the world's choice spirits, who have seen and felt deeply the true meaning 

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