THE GUIDE TO NATURE— ADVERTISEMENTS 
VI! 
The Poetry of Earth. 
“The poetry of earth is never dead,” 
said one who knew more about it than 
most of us ; and it is certain that the 
beauty of the natural world is as varied 
as it is inexhaustible. It is not neces- 
sary to go far to seek the beauty, to 
travel in strange countries, or to ex- 
plore wide waters. The most appealing 
and the most exquisite loveliness is all 
about us every day, throngs in upon 
our senses, once they are awake to it, 
with a delight sufficient to obscure and 
banish the haunting misery of life. And 
the loveliness is most abundant in com- 
mon things. The delicacy and the se- 
cret, creeping growth of casual weeds 
and insects, the large and quiet drift of 
summer clouds in the unfathomable 
sky, are endless revelations of beauty, 
everywhere and at all times accessible 
Such ample and enduring pleasures 
are not confined to a small class of the 
leisured or the wealthy. The capitalist, 
with all his millions, may not grasp 
them ; the poor laborer or the simpl 
child may have an instinctive enjoy- 
ment of them that money cannot buy or 
privilege confer. 
Yet how many, rich and poor alike, 
and wise and simple, are completely in- 
sensible to them. We pity the grossly 
blind, whose eyes are obviously shut to 
the necessary vision of even the com- 
mon things of life such as are essential 
to our animal needs. But we do not 
think of the far greater number whose 
spiritual vision is sealed, so that they 
are utterly unconscious of all those rich 
possibilities of joy, which need only be 
seen to make us happier and calmer and 
therefore more profitable to ourselves 
and to others. How many millions of 
men and women there are who live in 
the self-secluded isolation of Peter Bell : 
A primrose hv a river’s brim 
A yellow primrose was to him, 
And it was nothing' more. 
No doubt the poets can help us 
greatly to the vision of the poetry of 
earth. They can unseal our eves and 
help us to use them. Best of all, they 
can quicken the imagination behind the 
eye. 
But, after all, it is our own imagina- 
tion and our own eyes that must be of 
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service to us. We must learn to give 
our imagination rein. We must learn 
to open our eyes and not let care and 
trouble seal them. “I am a man for 
whom the visible world exists,” said 
Theophile Gautier. Can you say it? — 
The Youth’s Companion. 
The Wayside Altar. 
Only an old stone wall 
Under the maples tall, 
Doing its bit to guard the field inside ; 
But morning glories white 
As snow on Winter’s night 
Had made it into a wayside altar wide. 
— Emma Peirce. 
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