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<h2> <i>Edgar Guest</i> </h2>
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(Who has an air of absolute belief in the True, the Optimistic, and
the Checkbook. He seems yet a little ill at ease among the others,
and to be looking about restlessly for Ella Wheeler Wilcox.)</p>
<h3> AIN'T NATURE WONDERFUL! </h3>
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<p class="i2"> How dear to me are home and wife, </p>
<p class="i4"> The dear old Tree I used to Love, </p>
<p class="i2"> The Pear it shed on starting life </p>
<p class="i4"> And God's Outdoors so bright above! </p>
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<p class="i2"> For Virtue gets a high reward, </p>
<p class="i4"> Noble is all good Scenery, </p>
<p class="i2"> So I will root for Virtue hard, </p>
<p class="i4"> For God, for Nature, and for Me! </p>
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