University of the Pacific Scholarly Commons John Muir: A Reading Bibliography by Kimes John Muir Papers 1-1-1905 [Excerpts from Letters to Mrs. Jeanne Carr.] John Muir Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmb Recommended Citation Muir, John, "[Excerpts from Letters to Mrs. Jeanne Carr.]" (1905). John Muir: A Reading Bibliography by Kimes. 289. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmb/289 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the John Muir Papers at Scholarly Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in John Muir: A Reading Bibliography by Kimes by an authorized administrator of Scholarly Commons. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. , JOHN MUIR': GEOLOGIST, EXPLORER, NATURALIST -~ • And Nature, .the .old nurse, took And he wandered away and away The child upon her knee, · With Nature, the dear old nurse, Saying: · "Here is a story-book Who sang to him night and day . ' . Thy Father has written for thee;'' The rh,Ymes of the universe- - ... 11 "Come wander with me, she said;· And whenev~r the way seemed long, Into· regions yet untrod; ' . .Or his heart began to fail, And read what is still unread She would sing a more wonderful song, 11 In the manuscripts of God. · Or tell a more marveious tale. E words so long ago applied by Longfellow to the elder Agassiz, have an equal descriptive power when attached I1Dt:iili~l4 ·t:o the lonely student of the A~ericari glaciers. · They are,· perhaps, even truer of the Scotch-American, than ~ ·~;:~aru of the Swiss, since the latter, although a pioneer in his II chosen path of scientific progress, lived.