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these: How many eyes has John Burroughs himself opened, and how 

 many has our friend Mr. William Yates ? Cultivate, therefore, my 

 friends, this opening of the eyes, and if you have no taste for any of 

 our present established sections we have plenty of room for others. 

 Thus by cultivating our various talents we will soon find our 

 Association fufilling the wishes of the founders, and instead of find- 

 ing the study of Nature a trial we will be ready to say with the 

 poet Wordsworth : 



" Therefore am I still 

 A lover of the meadows and the woods, 

 And mountains : and of all that we behold 

 From this green earth ; of all the mighty world 

 Of eye and ear, — both what they half create, 

 And what perceive ; well pleased to recognize 

 In nature and the language of the sense, 

 The anchor of my purest thoughts, the nurse, 

 The guide, the guardian of my heart and soul 

 Of all my moral being. " 



