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to crown it your name Is too obscure von ou leftwo him la in R I 1 at atto ile of said ead dejection hut but learn upon ulon a little calm reflection theres no occasion tor for such dire despair ellb looks alone tire biru wise his words mero stir ethel kildow tim the old bowe paper ill printed old fashioned and homely of ui a small country iown with nil an unfeigned sneer at its wrapper queer tho the postman in nis scorn corri phroh H it down HI lies and wanting ri for cable arams lerio search in valti yonder vender great city sheet with its features replete makes the columns seem shabbily I eijin lain hut but I 1 con every line that it offers each item brings something i tp to viona vio if 1 the vista of 0 years of cf youths P pens elke urea and fear fears and served cacir keen touch to renew the death of a girl I 1 once courted the growth ofa of a firm I 1 once jeered thu briw of a 0 friend whom I 1 loved to commend the alie fall of a min I 1 revered aai As I 1 read I 1 drift dreamily backward to days when to lo live was but joy oy I 1 think thin kand and I 1 ill the cites dull TOM room grows taint rud and again im ilia a boy ter rumer of grean ereon country byways tear far music of mowers an and d lives bees and the little town inc fog down to the alic creek anil and tile the law bending trees A round me tho the forms bornis of my comrades about us callia chorles unfurled ruch bach heart undefiled with the faith of a child looking forth to a place in the world and llo file paper tells cllia how flow till nil have prospered I 1 follow their lives as they flow bow applaud ing ach rain gain and regretting each pain for the lie sake of the days long pee a 0 o then somehow my luy cares seem less heavy for the voyage I 1 take as I 1 read and I 1 ifancy fancy forsooth aliat alio vigor of Is imbibed to I 1 replenish ep lenish my need above all the lingo huge city dailies with ponderous utterance wise this thin scant pago page hath power to spread out for or nil an hour A fairyland tweet to mine eyes 11 II 11 printed old fashioned and homely bearing namo name of a small country town I 1 wait waft and I 1 seek for the moment each week I 1 lon heu the ibe postman in scorn icorn throws it down charles moreau harger II arger A prayer I 1 I 1 do not lot ask 0 lord that life lilly bo be A A pleas sint road I 1 do not ask that thou ako ta ae from mo ma aught of its sl ool I 1 do rift ask I 1 zia I 1 flo wars ebli epriam leath my feet beet 4 1 t i know too 00 well oil the poison and tb the eiting belne of things too sweet for or one thing only lord dear lord I 1 plead load we aright though strength reneth st should falt falter erand anil heart should bleed through gli peace to light I 1 do not ask 0 lord I 1 that thou should st shed elica full radiance liero here give hut but a ray f peace mace that I 1 may freaa WI without about a fear 1 do not as my lay cross to understand my way to see better in darkness just to feel thy hand and follow thee joy is like restless day but peace divino divine like quiet highl lead me 0 lord till perfect day shall shine through peace mace to light fight the old garden 0 o yousa nothing of lose losa that tolls trees now flou ers era are ara they flioy as lovely as of yore doab spring still deck with corals corald and green bells our favorite sycamore ilio cho early li lilacs lites bloom they rank on rank purple and white as they have bloomed for yc arsi UM old crown imperial on the mossy hank bank be ills his hoarded tears rile rose acacia does it carpet now low the alic pathway at hway with its waxen blossoms red deop the smooth anio olli berries from the laurill laurel bough into the iolet led bed suffer the birds no loss lose bereft so BO long lone oaut W us Is I 1 not the llie blackbird muto mute for doubt Is no wan tin to tile thru ilis song so no note coto left lual out do docs the moon bhoj behind the tha Led hedgerow gerow elms black lim against a spectral sell scant of light re aris our ori 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