. Hours in my garden, and other nature-sketches. With 138 illus. Natural history. 154 " Through the Wheats And I will set him in my uncle's eye Among the wheat, that, when his heart is glad Of the full harvest, he may see the boy, And bless him for the sake of him that's gone! " And as human feelings, at base, remain much unmodi- fied, whatever the effect of outward custom and obser- vance, it may be presumed that the same sentiment inspired Naomi and Ruth as regards the latter going to glean in the fields of Boaz. And all this suggests a ques- tion : Why is infancy in itself more po
. Hours in my garden, and other nature-sketches. With 138 illus. Natural history. 154 " Through the Wheats And I will set him in my uncle's eye Among the wheat, that, when his heart is glad Of the full harvest, he may see the boy, And bless him for the sake of him that's gone! " And as human feelings, at base, remain much unmodi- fied, whatever the effect of outward custom and obser- vance, it may be presumed that the same sentiment inspired Naomi and Ruth as regards the latter going to glean in the fields of Boaz. And all this suggests a ques- tion : Why is infancy in itself more poetic than adolescence, and adolescence than middle age, and middle age than senility ? Is there not something inde- finably expressive to the imagination, in possibility, in growth, in the promise of indefinite expansion ? It is not only the purity and inno- cency of childhood that -en- chant; it is the spring-like promise, with its uncon- wild oat. sciousness, and also its pomp of passing- beauty. That it is passing is one of the elements that appeals to the heart. In the grown man, with every line fixed and settled, with habits formed, and the countenance become the very index of these habits, what room is there for the brooding fore- cast blended of hope and fear, which in some circum- stances makes the commonest heart thrill to poetry ? Childhood is the springtime, adolescence is the early. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Japp, Alexander H. (Alexander Hay), 1839-1905. New York, Macmillan & Co.
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