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suffer, to rejoice, to love, to hate, to murder ! — the wise Artist 
has taught him in his marvellous pictures that these humble 
creatures he has despised, do all such fantastic tricks likewise 
"before high heaven," quite as earnestly as he, and much 
more gracefully. 
It is thus, then, by a loving apotheosis, that all things are 
dignified in the recognition of the true Art which places in 
a like, but graduated category of respect, 
" creeping forms and insects rainbow- winged 
And birds and beasts and fisb and human shapes." 
It is thus, then, that the Artist wins his power and right 
from the Old Mother "to do strange deeds — it is through 
such processes that the strength and wisdom of the creative 
energy in him has been elaborated. Now, in truth, the fru- 
ition of his probation has arrived ! — 
" And what if Art, an ardent intercessor, 
Diving on fiery wings to Nature's throne 
Checks the Great Mother stooping to caress her. 
And cries, give me thy Oliild Dominion?" — 
in him, dominion she will have, for we have seen how he has 
won it well ! 
In his wide and solitary wanderings, our Art-Naturalist 
has m.ade companionship with the most tameless creatures. 
He knows through many affectionate remembrances on his 
own part of varying pleasures they have afforded him here 
and there, in his pilgrimage, not alone each family, but as 
well every member thereof. 
Thus he knows the Golden Eagle too well not to recognize 
its j^oung one too, and because it is called " the ring-tailed 
Eagle of Authors," that does not make it with and to him a 
new species. He has watched the dingy and awkward Ea- 
glet up through all its blundering defects, until he saw it on 
tlic fourth year, right gloriously arrayed, go forth on shining 
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