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NATURE'S TEACHINGS.


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Go forth with Nature—she hath many voices,
Speaking deep lessons to the human heart,
Where the blue streamlet in its course rejoices,
And where amid the forest wild birds dart,
Bearing in some sweet chorus each a part;
Wind, wave and blossom, tree and fragrant sod,
The mossy hillock in its robe of green,
The tiny bells that in the breezes nod,
Lifting their dewy heads, broad leaves between—