" For him the woods were a home and gave him the key 

 Of knowledge, thirst for their treasures in herbs and flo 

 The secrets held by the creatures nearer than we 

 To earth he sought, and the link of their life with ours : 

 And where alike we are, unlike where, and the veined 

 Division, veined parallel, of a blood that flows 

 In them, in us, from the source by man unattained, 

 Save mark he well what the mystical woods disclose." 



MEREDITH, Melampus. 



