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A CHILD OF NATURE 
of revealing sharp outlines and hard 
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realities. It was a wonder world, 
as it is to every imaginative child ; Yi/n 
and he went through it with eager J/W 
step, expecting every moment to 
surprise its hidden life by sudden and 
complete discovery. The stretches 
of forest, the meadows, the hills, 
the quiet places in the heart of the 
woods, the stars moving in sublime 
procession past his window, the 
glowing of the day and its fading : 
these things touched his spirit with 
K influences so fine and sensitive that 
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H they fashioned him without awak- 
ening him out of the dream of 
childhood. Of this companionship 
with the wild things of the wood 
and the bright things of the sky he 
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