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Though hundreds of thousands had done their very best to

disfigure the sether, by paving the ground with stones, scraping away every

vestige of vegetation, cutting down the trees, turning away birds

and beasts, and filling the air with the s, even in the town

The sun shone waret scraped away, the grass revived and sprang up between the

paving-stones as well as on the narrow strips of lawn on the

boulevards The birches, the poplars, and the wild cherry

unfolded their gu their opening buds; crows, sparrows, and pigeons,

filled with the joy of spring, were getting their nests ready;

the flies were buzzing along the walls, warlad, the plants, the birds, the insects, and the

children Butand tor ht sacred and worthy of

consideration not the beauty of God's world, given for a joy to

all creatures, this beauty which inclines the heart to peace, to

har

one another

Thus, in the prison office of the Government town, it was not the

fact that ladness of

spring that was considered sacred and important, but that a