Chapter 188 MOTHER NATURE.

Nature, the gentlest mother,

Impatient of no child,

The feeblest or the waywardest, -

Her admonition mild

In forest and the hill

By traveller is heard,

Restraining rampant squirrel

Or too impetuous bird.

How fair her conversation,

A summer afternoon, -

Her household, her assembly;

And when the sun goes down

Her v