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156 country life, which he contrasted with city vanities. This was his last poetical work and it contains all the freshness of youth.

But in nature, as in art and as in love, it was God for whom he was seeking, and to whom he daily drew nearer. He had always been a believer. Though he was not to be easily deceived either by priests or monks or devotees of either sex, and though, should an opportunity offer, he treated them without tenderness, there was