Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1873, by WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington. CAMBRIDGE: PRESS OF JOHN WILSON AND SON. DEDICATION. Silent and serene, The plastic soul emancipates her kind. She sheds no tears for us, our mother, Nature! She is ne'er rude nor vexed, not rough or careless; To human senses breathes through frost. Learn, from the joy of Nature, thus to be : Considerate to his kind. Thus Henry lived, His love bestowed Was not a gift in fractions, half-way done; By pleasing reason urged he touched their thought |