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replied : “ Well, I hadn’t thought of that; but I guess you are right, 
my boy, and we’ll leave the nests where they are.” 
It was intended to introduce this work into one or two schools as 
an experiment, but soon other schools caught the idea and organized 
by a delightful sort of spontaneous combustion, until probably not 
less than 5,000 pupils joined the clubs, and practically every child in 
the city felt their influence for good. 
A number of spontaneous expressions have come to me indicating 
a living, permanent interest, and we may feel assured that every life 
thus touched by the magic of positive love, thought, and action, has 
been “ lifted up and strengthened : 
Knowing that Nature never did betray 
The heart that loved her; ’tis her privilege, 
Through all the years of this our life to lead 
From joy to joy : for she can so inform 
The mind that is within us, so impress 
With quietness and beauty, and so feed 
With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, 
Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, 
Nor greetings, where no kindness is, nor all 
The dreary intercourse of daily life 
Shall e’er prevail against us or disturb 
Our cheerful faith, that all which we behold 
Is full of blessings. 
— Wm. Wordszvor/h, Tintern Abbey. 
