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Show A VISION" OF CONTENTMENT. (Charles Coleman Stoddard in Criterion.) Here where the ripple of the lazy s'tream Scarce breaks the silence of the summer Rich-ith perfume e.f rose and blossom rare , , T ,. , , rnon this grassy bank I ly? and dream: YVatelhing the checkered sunshine glint and gleam ..... , . Tdoii this gmssy bank I be and dream: All loth to hurry onward through the Of sun1 downed meadows that so distant Be mine1" today the shepherd's joy ami The j'ojTthat comes with calling life your The ea vou feel when, stretched beneath be-neath "the trees. you oHint the dritting clouds, and hear th't drone , Of honey sotted bees, and ask no lot Save life and pipe. Witn trouble all forgot. |