236 ^HE TICTORIAN NATURALIST. [Tol. XXIII. 



them. Each day passed pleasant!}', and each evening 

 gave peaceful rest. Mr. Leach proved a very efficicTxt 

 manager, the lecturers an expert band of teachers, and the 

 students a class of which any one might be proud. 



Whether we look or whether we listen, 

 We hear life murmur or see it glisten ; 

 Every clod feels a stir of might, 



An instinct within it that reaches and towers, 

 And, groping blindly above it for light, 



Climbs to a soul in grasses and flowers. 



And there's never a leaf nor a blade too mean 

 To be some happy creature's palace. 

 The little bird sitsat his door in the sun, 



Atilt like a blossom among the leaves, 

 And lets his illumined being o'errun 



With the deluge of summer it receives. 



— Lowell, 



