

Z INTRODUCTION. 
man, for a light to his eyes, for a living inspi- 
ration of grace to his spirit, for a perpetual 
admiration. And accordingly they seize on 
our affections the first moment that we behold 
them. With what eagerness do very infants 
grasp at flowers. As they become older they 
would live for ever amongst them. They 
bound about in the flowery meadows like 
young fawns; they gather all they come near ; 
they collect heaps; they sit among them and 
sort them, and sing over them and caress 
them, till they perish in their grasp. 
This sweet May morning 
The children are pulling 
On every side, 
In a thousand valleys far and wide, 
Fresh flowers. WORDSWORTH, 
“We see them coming wearily into the 
towns and villages with their pinafores full, 
and with posies half as large as themselves. 
We trace them in shady lanes, in the grass of 
far-off fields, by the treasures they have gathered 
and have left behind, lured on by others still 
greater, 

















