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found to be all right. It was very strange. Finally- 

 one of them discovered that they had seen the animal 

 through a transparent iceberg, and that they had been 

 wasting their bullets against the same. 



Nature is spoken of in many different ways and 

 places. In the Bible reference is made to her or some 

 of her works in an attractive manner. Some sach pas- 

 sages have already been inserted within these pages. 



The references by poets are many and beautiful. In 

 regard to the love of Nature, Bryant says: 



"To him who in the love of nature, 



Holds communion with her visible forms, 

 She speaks a various language; for his gayer hours; 



She has a voice of gladness, and a smile, 

 And eloquence of beauty, and she glides 



Into his darker musings with a mild, 

 And gentle sympath}^ that steals away 



Their sharpness, ere he is aware/' 



A gain we have a few lines from one of our poets, 



"The bird that soars on highest wing, 

 Builds on the ground her lowly nest. 



And she that doth most sweetly sing. 

 Sings in the shade where all things rest. 



In lark and* nightingale we see, 

 What honor hath humility,'' 



And again, 



"There is pleasure in the pathless woods. 



There is rapture on the lonely shore; 

 There is society where none intrudes; 



But the deep sea, and music in its roar: 

 I love not man the less; but nature more 



From these our interviews, in which I steal. 

 From what I may be or have been before. 



To mingle with the Universe, and feel 

 What I cannot express; yet cannot all conceal." 



From ^^The Brook," by Alfred Tennyson, 



"I steal by lawns and grassy plots, 



I slide by hazel covers, 

 I move the^weet ferget me-nots, 



That grow for happy lovers. 



