Midsummer 



When I first discovered it, one superb 

 rain-washed afternoon, the line 



" From dewy pastures, uplands sweet with 

 thyme, *' 



from Mr. Watson's poem on Wordsworth, 

 flashed into my mind, and for the hun- 

 dredth time I appreciated the humor of 

 Mr. Oscar Wilde's assertion to the effect 

 that the chief use of Nature is to illus- 

 trate quotations from the poets. 



