THE COMPLETE CHANGE 



IT is well known that serious diseases necessitate 

 heroic remedies. Seven weeks' work in London-on- 

 the-clay is far too serious a disease to be cured by a 

 week of London-by-the-sea. What can homeopathy 

 do for a soul bowed down by an unbroken con- 

 templation of bricks and mortar, in an atmosphere 

 that is produced from chimney-pots, whose best views 

 are those most obscured by smoke, whose very pave- 

 ments are not of real stone, but of some composition 

 cast by a process that takes a second for every thousand 

 years that nature needs ? Let us put our foot, even 

 if it be a bare foot, in a field of growing grass, let 

 the eye drink in the delights of a fresh landscape 

 starred with spring flowers, let the nostrils breathe 

 the air that meets a hill-top under blue sky, and the 

 ear tingle to the rapturous song of birds newly returned 

 to the scene they love best on earth. 



The hedges beside the lanes stand on tall banks, 

 and a wealth of running verdure has knit hedge and 

 bank together so that we can scarcely see where one 

 ends and the other begins. The stitchwort has woven 

 them with its long green threads, and has splashed 

 them with milk-white blossoms that shame those of 

 the may reaching down to draw the eye up to the 

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