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A CHILD OF NATURE 
It was a work of piety and of joy ; 
there was in the doing of it the 
same tender and passionate delight 
which sometimes came to the 
copyist in the scriptorium of the 
monastery when, with rich em- 
bellishment of trailing vine and 
blossoming flower, he gave new 
form to some old scripture ; adding 
nothing which was foreign to the 
text, but evoking its hidden truth in 
fair images and fragrant traceries 
which interpreted to the eye what 
the mind read in the bare lettering. 
In like manner, and with a kindred 
'sgjjj^M joy, Ralph Parkman wrought the 
miracle of resurrection on Joh 
ter's detached and unripe thou 
mere seeds of ideas, hard an 
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