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CHAPTER XI. 
Nature ncA-er did betray 
The heart that loved her ; 'tis her privilege, 
Through all the years of this our life, to lead 
Erom joy to joy ; for she can so inform 
The mind that is within us, so impress 
With quietness and beauty, and so feed 
With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, 
Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, 
Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all 
The dreary intercourse of daily life, 
Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb 
Our cheerful faith, that all which we behold 
Is full of blessings. — Wokdsworth. 
In my last chapter I brought my Fern collection 
to an end ; but I feel as if I had yet a last word 
to say— a small, very small sum to cast up of the 
amount of work, or rather play, that I have done 
in the Fern papers, in which I have so pleasantly 
wandered back through famihar scenes and amongst 
familiar friends. 
