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A CHILD OF NATURE 
harmonies of the stars, with great 
shoutings of the seas and music of 
birds, and all the sweet, familiar 
melody of the fields ; and in this 
shining world of stars and seas and 
birds and waving grain, which 
he knew so well, he saw strange 
sights of men moving as in great 
dreams or caught up in great storms 
and swept like leaves hither and 
thither ; and his heart was heavy 
with the burden of the mystery of 
life and sore with its sorrows ; and 
the veil was lifted from his eyes, 
and he saw men as well as Nature ; 
not with clear sight, but in part 
with his eyes and in part with his 
imagination. 
