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Live Close to Nature.
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They are not set for nought before thine eyes,
They are not hieroglyphics which the wise
Can scarce decipher—they have meanings clear
That whoso will, may understand and hear,
They are for thee,
Assuredly,
Soul primers—God in part made manifest
Some other way, some other day, He will reveal the rest.


Two Ways of Love.
Dramatis Persona.
Nellie.
Tom (her brother).
Adrienne (an heiress. Cousin to Tom and Nellie).
Scene I.
A balcony opening from a ballroom.
Time—after midnight.

Nellie—
If I were not so modern! I am smit
By sorrow, antique as the cruel plan
That made a human heart so breakable
And trusted it to chance's careless hands.