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Show 'r 'WI'-OFLGWERS. "'Bcareknawnbr niinie, tho" plsthesround With motley color J. starry forme. In thtm the eunett eHles are found Thn follow after stortrm .i ' And blurs of ctlmtan blue tind gold Their graceful challcee enfold. While "mid the dead leave plied and pent Humbly they live and die content. Huge oaka 'above them lift their head And drop the acorn, htd the leaf, The hafveit -Held far round them ehede I'lentj In many a sheaf, '',, And they, half fragrant, brighten earth ? ,J- Low In the shadows where there's dearth ,l ,- Ot pain or' pleasure, love or life.. j"L v Far from the world's mad, ceaseless strlfo. 1 ' They speak no message, act no part, They have no works to show, Detp hidden here they touch no heart And do not ask to knowi Yet If one meet the ee of man It all unfolds the Master-plan " , Tho Toner that painted this fatrblobm 'l ' For man can have no futile doom -Charles W. Btevenson. In N Y. Observer. |