...secure in childish piety, Listened as if I heard an angel sing With news from heaven, which he did bring Fresh every day to my untainted ears, When birds and flowers and I were happy peers. How like a prodigal doth Nature seem, When thou, for all thy gold, so common art ! Than teaches! me...

...secure in childish piety, Listened as if I heard an angel sing With news from heaven, which he did bring Fresh every day to my untainted ears, When birds and flowers and I were happy peers. How like a prodigal doth nature seem, When thou, for all thy gold, so common art! Thou teachest me...

...secure in childish piety, Listened as if I heard" an angel sing With news from heaven, which he did bring Fresh every day to my untainted ears, When birds and flowers and I were happy peers. 54 JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. How like a prodigal doth Nature seem, When thou, for all thy gold, so common...

...secure in childish piety, Listen'd as if I heard an angel sing, With news from heaven, which he did bring Fresh every day to my untainted ears, When birds and flowers and I were happy peers." The rich golden clusters of the Ragwort are very handsome, and growing on their tall stems, sometimes...

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...whiten in the wind,—of waters blue That from the distance sparkle through Some woodland gap.—and of a sky above, Where one white cloud like a stray...ears, When birds and flowers and I were happy peers. How like a prodigal doth nature seem, When thou, for all thy gold, so common art! Thou teachest me...

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...secure in childish piety, Listen'd as if I heard an angel sing With news from heaven, which he did bring Fresh every day to my untainted ears, When birds and flowers and I were happy peers. How like a prodigal doth nature seem, When thou, for all thy gold, so common art ! Thou teachest me...