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love can bring unity. Love is the fulfilling of the law 

 of all law. The teacher who has led her pupils to 

 regard nature reverently and sympathetically has done 

 much to bring into unity the child and all his environ- 

 ment. 



THE PRIMROSE ON THE ROCK. 



A rock there is whose homely front 



The passing traveller slights ; 



Yet there the glow-worms hang their lamps, 



Like stars, at various heights : 



And one coy primrose to that rock 



The vernal breeze invites. 



What hideous warfare hath been waged, 



What kingdoms overthrown, 



Since first I spied that primrose tuft 



And marked it for. my own ; 



A lasting link in Nature's chain 



From highest heaven let down ! 



The flowers, still faithful to the stems, 



Their fellowship renew ; 



The stems are faithful to the root, 



That worketh out of view ; 



And to the rock the root adheres 



In every fibre true. 



Close clings to earth the living rock, 

 Though threatening still to fall ; 

 The earth is constant to her sphere, 

 And God upholds them all : 

 So blooms this lowly plant, nor dreads 

 Her annual funeral. 



WORDSWORTH. 



