THE VOICE OF One of the deepest effects upon us of the 

 gentler aspects of nature is a feeling or sense of 

 constancy in its relation to us. 



We pass through the changing year, the 

 coming of the old favorites in the springtime, 

 the glory of the golden summer, the deepening 

 shadows of autumn, and on into the cold of 

 winter, not doubting that the flowers which 

 seem to die will bloom again when they wake 

 from their sleep. We do not fear that we shall 

 not greet the old friends at the end of their 

 night ; and somehow the feeling grows that the 

 mysterious Power, which in some of its aspects 

 seems stern and hard, is kind and may be 

 trusted. The flowers help us to believe the 

 great Teacher who assures us that that Power 

 is our Father. 



It is true, there are those who see no such 

 truth in nature. What was true of Words- 

 worth's Peter Bell is true of them 



A primrose by a river's brim 



A yellow primrose was to him, 



And it was nothing more. 



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