The birch-bark canoe of the savage seems to me one of the most beautiful and perfect things of the kind constructed by human art.

To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language.

Sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.

Go forth under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings.

Is not thy home among the flowers?

Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster children into strength and athletic proportion.

The victory of endurance born.