A CHILD OF NATURE 
he carried it away into the heart 
of the woods and let the light of 
/ the open sky fall on it, and heard 
the birds singing over him as they 
sang in the pages of the book, and 
the faint rustle of grain borne to 
him on the soft air as it rises into 
sound and subsides into silence 
again in the record of the book, he 
knew that between the beauty and 
truth in Nature and the beauty and 
truth in the book there was neither 
discord nor severance, but harmony 
at the root and in the flower of the 
life that climbs in Nature and finds 
many voices in the human spirit. 
And so he discovered the presence 
and knew that God was in His 
world. 
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