Under the trees . aried and marvellousappearances are no longer detached andchangeless to him; they are alive, andthey change moment by moment. Ah, theyoung feet have come now to the verythreshold of the temple, and fortunate arethey if there be one to guide them whoseheart still speaks the language of childhoodwhile her thought rests in the great truthswhich come with deep and earnest is defrauded of half its inheri-tance when no one swings wide before it thedoor into the fairyland of Nature ; a landin which the most beautiful dreams arelike visions of the distant Alps, cloud
Under the trees . aried and marvellousappearances are no longer detached andchangeless to him; they are alive, andthey change moment by moment. Ah, theyoung feet have come now to the verythreshold of the temple, and fortunate arethey if there be one to guide them whoseheart still speaks the language of childhoodwhile her thought rests in the great truthswhich come with deep and earnest is defrauded of half its inheri-tance when no one swings wide before it thedoor into the fairyland of Nature ; a landin which the most beautiful dreams arelike visions of the distant Alps, cloudlike,apparently evanescent, yet eternally true;in which the commonest realities are morewonderful than visions. How many chil-dren live all their childhood in the veryheart of this realm, and are never so muchas told to look about them. The sublimemiracle play is yearly performed in theirsight, and they only hear it said that it ishot or cold, that the day is fair or dark !And now there come sudden insights into86. • C- LH- • .
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