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and cold ; and vet husbanding all 
the potentialities of life and beauty 
in them. Upon this rude text 
Parkman worked with the loving 
skill of a monastic >cribe ; and these 
dormant seeds, in the warm soil of 
his imagination, yielded their secret 
and imperishable vitality. 
It was a little book which finally 
went forth in the early summer 
from the old house, but it was very 
deep and beautiful ; like a quiet 
mountain pool, it was tar from the 
dust and tumult oi the highways, 
and there were images oi stars in it. 
With the generosity of a fine spirit, 
the young man interpreted the lite 
of the older man through the rich at- 
mosphere of his own temperament 
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