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"Let Nature be your teacher: / Sweet is the lore which Nature brings. / Our meddling intellect / Misshapes the beauteous forms of things. / We murder to dissect. / Enough of Science and of Art: / Close up those barren leaves; / Come forth, and bring with you a heart / That watches and receives. " / Wordsworth
About six weeks after the beginning of the half, as Tom and Arthur were sitting one night before supper beginning their verses, Arthur suddenly stopped, and looked up, and said, "Tom, do you know anything of Martin?"