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(more than all science ever taught)—

The near contact, the dear dear mother so close—the twilight sky

and the young tree-tops against it;

The few needs, the exhilarated radiant life—the food and population

question giving no more trouble;

No hurry more, no striving one to over-ride the other:

… man the companion of Nature.

Civilization behind him now—the wonderful stretch of the past;

Continents, empires, religions, wars, migrations—all gathered up in him;

The immense knowledge, the vast winged powers—to use or not to use—…

And as he fell asleep at length it seemed there came a sound of hushed huge trampling underneath his window, and that when he rose to listen, his big friend from the steamer led him forth into the darkness, that those shapes of Cloud and Wind he now so often saw, companioned them across the heights of the night toward some place in the distant mountains where light and flowers were, and all his dream of years most exquisitely fulfilled….

He slept. And through his sleep there dropped the words of that old tribesman from the wilderness: "They come in the spring… and are very swift and roaring. They are older, older than the stones. They cannot die… they are of the mountains, and you must hide."