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" But none has hope like thine ! 



Thou through the fields and through the woods dost stray. 

 Roaming the country-side, a truant boy, 

 Nursing thy project in unclouded joy. 



And every doubt long blown by time away." 



Matthew Arnold, The Scholar-Gipsy. 



Pen- and brush-craft pale their ineffectual fires 

 before the beauty of Alpine grass-lands, and flawful 

 and halting has been the manner of presenting 

 my subject ; but 1 hope a sufficient glimpse of its 

 fascination and importance will have been caught 

 to raise enthusiasm to the point of making amends 

 for a neglectful past. Whatever may be the ver- 

 dict upon the question of introducing Swiss floral 

 wealth to our meadows generally, perhaps enough 

 has been said to make it plain that very many of 

 the mountain field-flowers cry aloud to be treated 

 as field-Jiowers in every Alpine garden where there 

 is scope for, and pretensions to, completeness. 



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