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"The Thoughts That Arise 1n Me.''

[ ending can never be found. Kalure's lessons are the ones most valuable to us, for in the stud) of :\ature
~ ~ature all studies begin and, we might say, there they have an end. It is so boundless thl· beginning or
we find written the truths of the inner self. Xature has a most interesting face. and her lover has the
true poetic soul 'Tis said:
·' He is the greatest artist then,
Whether of pencil or of pen,
\\'ho follo\\·s Xature."
There is something which magnetizes en•ry sense as one gazes on her beauty. \\'e feel an undefinable
sympathy within us with her every mood. In the great mountains, Xature's frowns, there is something l(nhid-
ding, yet strong and mighty. \Vhen her anger is aroused the lightning leaps from furrow to furrow on her bro\\ ,
and as it passes away the gloom is impenetrable.
The smiling \·alleys clothed with \'enlure and variegated flowers that timorously raise their dewy chet:ks
to he kissed by the rays of the vema! sun speak of the gentler self. and the lakes are the mirror,; that reflect ih
happiness.
The ri\·ers are Xature's tears; ~ome tell of joy and gladness as they, laughing and dancing. leap down thl'
mountain side, glide through ravines and into deep fissures as though they were playing hide and sel·k with them
seln:s, to emerge again and rival the music of the sirens before losing their identit) in old Ocean':- \\aters: others.
deep and broad, tell of grief and sorrow as, languid and serpent-like, they creep through tht: great plains and
valleys with irresistible force.
Gazing on all this grandeur, how can one doubt the affinity of Xature to self> When in an hour of mt:di
tation we go forth into Nature's garden-a garden that surpasses in splendor those of ancient Babylon to com·
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