302 WHITWELL : THE LATE BISHOP OF WAKEFIELD, 
‘Mountain Pansies, ‘Pencil or Pen,’ or ‘Golden Saxifrage’; and 
two or three of the Barmouth pieces. But the pages of the 
‘Naturalist’ are scarcely the place for more than a reference to them, 
even if space permitted. But I must cite a few favourite lines from 
the ‘Home View’ (1850)—they express so well his life-long belief 
in the beneficial influence of natural history pursuits. 
Oh ! God be ‘praised a) a home 
Begirt with beauty 
A perfect home, wie: gel gage 
Are trained ’mid scenes 
And where (God grant it 2) i heart 
That loves a beauteous vie 
The while it grows in rath wha taste 
May grow in goodness too. 
For ’tis my faith that aaa to part 
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Widespread throughout the earth, 
Will something add unto his love 
Of wisdom and of worth 
Two of his best sonnets, written at Barmouth in 1887, after the 
issue of ‘ Poems,’ appeared in the ‘Spectator,’ and other pieces were 
printed on slips for enclosure in letters to his friends. 
It has been said by Matthew Arnold, with some truth— 
But Wordsworth’s eyes avert their ken 
From half of human fate. 
That limitation could not be ascribed to Dr. How. His poetty 
shows an ever-deepening desire to draw from the enjoyment of 
natural beauty increased will and capacity to sympathise with and 
help upwards the poor, the suffering, the ignorant, and the egraded. 
He could say, in what I count his finest sonnet, ‘From Nature 
to Man’ (1885)— 
Time was when Nature’s every mystic mood 
Poured round my heart a flood of eager joy 5 
but now— 
Dread mysteries of life and mn I scan 
And all my soul is only full of Man. 
The Bishop had a good acquaintance with our British plants, 
and possessed a tolerably large herbarium—devoted, however, main y 
to the rarer species. 
In 1857 he contributed largely to the foundation of the O 
and Welshpool Naturalists’ Field Club, of which he was 
Vice-President and afterwards President. It was in connection W 
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