...of faithfully cherishing the dear little ones left to her care. CHAPTER V. THEORIES OF EDUCATION. " This child I to myself will take ; She shall be mine, and I will make A lady of my own." "WORDSWORTH. WITH true and tender sympathy the orphan girls were received by their new associates....

...of any process of reasoning. Since the beginning of time nature has said of every one of them — " This child I to myself will take ; She shall be mine, and I will make A lady of my own." And if each were permitted to follow her instincts, and rely upon her intuitions, there would not be...

...mighty waters rolling evermore. LlJCY. THREE years she grew, in sun, and shower, Then Nature said, " A lovelier flower On earth was never sown ; This child...darling, be Both law and impulse : and with me The girl, on rock and plain, In earth and heaven, in glade and bower, Shall feel an overseeing power, To kindle...

...any other one of his poems : — • "Three years she grew in sun and shower, Then Nature said, 'A lovelier flower On earth was never sown : This child...take; She shall be mine, and I will make A lady of mine own. " ' Myself will to my darling be Both law and impulse; and with me, The girl in rock and...

...life, from home. JUontgomeiy. LUCY. THKEE years she grew in sun and shower ; Then Nature said, " A lovelier flower On earth was never sown ; This child...and bower, Shall feel an overseeing power, To kindle or restrain. « She shall be sportive as the fawn That wild with glee across the lawn Or up the mountain...

...Wordsworth CLXXIX THE EDUCATION OF NATURE Three years she grew in sun and shower ; Then Nature said, ' A lovelier flower On earth was never sown : This child...and plain In earth and heaven, in glade and bower To kindle or restrain. Shall feel an overseeing power ' She shall be sportive as the fawn That wild...

...motions light and free, And steps of virgin liberty : A countenance in which did meet :w^-— s=***• The girl, in rock and plain, In earth and heaven,...and bower, Shall feel an overseeing power To kindle or restrain. She shall be sportive as the fawn, That wild with glee across the lawn Or up the mountain...

...she grew in sun and shower ; Then Nature said — " A lovelier flower On earth was never sown ; The child I to myself will take : She shall be mine, and I will make A lady of my own." TT was a sultry afternoon in June, — twenty years -*• ago, let us say. Though the thunder was muttering...

...CLXXIX THE EDUCATION OF NATURE /T~'HREE years she grew in sun and shower ; -L Then Nature said, ' A lovelier flower On earth was never sown : This child...and bower Shall feel an overseeing power To kindle or restrain. ' She shall be sportive as the fawn That wild with glee across the lawn Or up the mountain...

...His greatest work is "The Excursion."] Three years she grew in sun and shower, Then Nature said, "A lovelier flower On earth was never sown; This child...darling, be Both law and impulse: and with me The girl, on rock and plain, In earth and heaven, in glade and bower, Shall feel an overseeing power, To kindle...