SONG OF THE BROOK (Illustrated)

Tennyson's well-known poem, "Song of the Brook," have been written by a person whose eyes were not open to every beauty in nature, and whose ears were not receptive of the music of nature's softest voices. The reason for Tennyson's being so close an observer of nature was that he was seeking truth, and in this search nature offered him a voluminous library.

One of the first things with which Tennyson was impressed was the order underlying the processes of nature. He also learned that the wor...