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Show SEA GULLS OF MANHATTAN. Toll and tumult, conflict nnd confusion. Clank uud clamor of tho vast machino Huranu hands huvo built for human bon- da'-e Tot nmid it all you float Krrone; Circling, nonrinp, sailing:, swooping lightlv Down to glean your harvest from tho wave. Drifting at your ease across tho harbor "iou nave kept tho froodom Naturo gaTo. Even so the wildwoods of Manhattan Saw your wheeling flocks of while and Grey; Even so you ciroled. sailod and floated Round xho Half-Moonorooping up the bay Even so your hooded eyos were Kustenlnc ' Whilo you fluttered o'er the tidal rips. Screaniinp with your thin and trajulouc voices 'Round tho lulleu British prison-ships. Childron of the elemental mother, Fearless floater 'mid the double blue, From the crowded boats that cross tho ferries fer-ries Many a longing heart goes out to you. Though the oltlen climb and close around us, Bomething tells us that our souls aro free ,iv,lho, 8C. Pllfi fly nlvo the harbor, ' whilo tho river flowe to meet tho ccal Henry van Dyke, in Seiibucr'a. DARWIN REVERSED. He whr a man among mon. But alnsl "Tis sad, but nono the less true, He met a woman A young and beautiful woman And she, made a .monkey-of him. --Ohicaso News. , |