Show PENNSYLVANIA AS A NOVELIST SEES HER Meredith Nicholsons new novel The Lords of High Decision contains the fol foi following lowing description of Pennsylvania lowin The Iron bones of the earth shook shok mightily when Pennsylvania was born No mighty light days das business the bring bringing lug ing brn In forth of this empire Mountains to rear and valleys to cut broad rivers to set st flowing in generous channels forests to marshal marhal and meadows to unroll fair fairand fairand and open and glad with wih green things growing Winter Inter running before the hounds of spring hides snow like a miser in a myriad pockets of the hills his and flies fes northward across the blue lakes to es cs escapa capa the gleeful laughter of freed fred springs and singing brooks an Scratch the crust and you ou may kindle the worlds hearth scatter seed and fields for lor forthe forthe were never so green A fair prospect the eye ee but greater greter gren hope in the heart of I Iman man Fortunate nation this to have so of states secure a keystone In he arch The sure spirits of the pioneers haunting the spiris hilltops gaze down in pride upon the teeming valleys You sober ones of the th broad brod brims the ax has gone deep into the forests you ou came to people and you in whose forest blood blo the Scottish pipes pips skirl skin and nd in whose heads flash fash the wit of Irish mothers An no land lam ever received sounder or orner saner ner or nobler pilgrims And you ou too plodding Dutchmen drift of the Palatinate von vou ou were nOt no so slow and dull dul after all al but wise wipe In your our sowing and reaping And call al the roll rol of names nam S dear to the Welsh hills his and mark the lusty lust der The soundest race stocks In Inthe Inthe inthe response rac the world are grafted here Let us be b wary of these the e tales of plunder Blunder lunder and corruption cor corruption The soil si that knew Franklin Is not so lightly to be yielded to perdition s Let us have patience sneering ones one the thela thelast la lat last Lt t lumbering Conestoga has hardly fad faded fade faded ed Into the west and the making of states is I e rather more mor than a days pastime Ver Verily fly ily you paid dearly darly for this house of your lawmakers iy marble and bronze and lapis forsooth But have a care that Wisdom laul and Honor are ar enthroned enthrone in those thos splendid halls and with no pockets pocket In their togas to a Then let him that the temple perish by bythe the sword |