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 for the youth of such a mind. Under the pressure of an age eminently utilitarian as this is, he will learn at last, when perhaps the spring time of life is past and gone, and it is too late for the lesson; but sooner or later he will learn the truth, that “where fairies have danced their mystic ring, though flowers may blow, fruit will hardly come."