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Show THE LION PATH. ( dare not Look the road is very dark fhe trees stir softly, and the hushes shake; The long crass rustles, and the darkness move Here there beyond There's something crept across the road just now! And you would have me go? Ro there through that live darkness hideous With stir of crouching forms that wait to kill? Ah, look! See there and there and there again-Great again-Great yellow glassy eyes close to the ground! Look Now the clouds are lighter, I can see The long, slow lashing of the sinewy tails And the set quiver of strong jaws that wait. Go there? Not I! "Who dares to go who sees So peifectly the lions in the path? Tonics one who dares. Afraidnt first, yet bound On 6uch hich erran ds as no fear could stay. Forth goes he, with ths iions in his path. And then He dared a death of agony Outnumbered battle with the king of beasts: Long struggle in the borrorof the night; Dared and went forth to meet O ye who fear! Finding an empty road and nothing there A wide, bare common road, with homely fields And fences and the dusty roadside trees Some spitting kittens maybe in the grass. Charlotte Perkins Stetson in Boston Worn-mi's Worn-mi's .Tournnl. j |