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A CHILD OF NATURE 
flash of light, a phrase seemed to 
leap out of the book into his im- 
agination. It was a line from 
Burns ; one of those fine simplici- 
ties of speech in which a deep 
thought lies like a star in a moun- 
tain pool. In that moment the boy 
knew without knowing what art is 
and means; he caught a glimpse of 
that perfection in which spirit and 
form dwell together in immortal 
harmony ; truth and beauty bearing 
a new flower on the ancient stem 
of time There was magic in 
the line ; the earth suddenly shone 
with new meanings ; the boy's 
heart danced with inward glee ; it 
seemed as if he must break away 
from bonds of time and place 
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