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Excerpt from Masterpieces of Eloquence, Vol. 18 of 25: Famous Orations of Great World Leaders From Early Greece to the Present Time Before their day we had praises of the seasons and passages of poetry in which cataracts, sunsets, rainbows and garden owers were faithfully described; but nature as a whole, as a presence, the very garment of God, was almost unheeded and unknown. When we consider what Bryant's poems read in the public schools in happy selection - have done to form the taste and feed the sentiment of two generations, we shall begin to estimate the value of his influence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.