Journeys through Bookland : a new and original plan for reading applied to the world's best literature for children . lliam Cowper I WOULD not enter on my list of friends(Though graced with pohshed manners and finesense,Yet wanting sensibility) the manWho needlessly sets foot upon a inadvertent step may crush the snailThat crawls at evening in the public path;But he that has humanity, tread aside, and let the reptile creeping vermin, loathsome to the sight,And charged, perhaps, with venom, that intrudes,A visitor unwelcome, into scenesSacred to neatness and rep
Journeys through Bookland : a new and original plan for reading applied to the world's best literature for children . lliam Cowper I WOULD not enter on my list of friends(Though graced with pohshed manners and finesense,Yet wanting sensibility) the manWho needlessly sets foot upon a inadvertent step may crush the snailThat crawls at evening in the public path;But he that has humanity, tread aside, and let the reptile creeping vermin, loathsome to the sight,And charged, perhaps, with venom, that intrudes,A visitor unwelcome, into scenesSacred to neatness and repose, the alcove,The chamber, or refectory, may die:A necessary act incurs no so when, held within their proper guiltless of offence, they range the air,Or take their pastime in the spacious field;There they are privileged; and he that huntsOr harms them there, is guilty of a the economy of Natures realm,AVlio, when she formed, designed them an sum is this: If mans convenience, safety interfere, his rights and claimsAre paramount, and must extinguish
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