A CHILD OF NATl'RE 
;^$ It seemed to him as if the splen- ^ 
dour which once lay on the surface 
of the world had not vanished, but 
silently sunk into the heart of 
things and radiated thence in a 
beauty more tender and pervading. 
He learned the artist's secret of 
rinding and keeping all things fresh 
to his eve and imagination ; as the 
glow of youth faded he found the de- 
parting loveliness reappearing in the 
form and shape and meaning of com- 
mon things ; thus gradually exchang- 
ing sight, which may grow dim, 
for vision which becomes clearer 
and more direct as the years go by. 
So he kept the fairyland of his early 
dreams at his doorstep, and trans- 
lated the great speech of the poets 
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