Show peace and promise in natures temple it was wag a swamp of the kind I 1 love miles upon miles of it seldom marked by the footprints of men a primitive swamp hoary with age where life ba had d grown upon life through centuries morles ce of dt I 1 time fragrant with a breath of mystery filled with a vast contentment a home hoine for the creatures of the wild but its age was what grow grew upon me I 1 sat upon a fallen pine that had lived five hundred years and then had lain a century where it had fallen crumbling once more into dust of earth near me was a still mightier tree rearing its head to the sky shy under my feet was the soft and sweetly musty mold of prehistoric generations of gods greatest living things on earth the trees age age and life end and death breathed together in tha air and lu in their there seemed to be a glorious symphony of fulfill ment and promise james jaines oliver curwood in hearses Ue He arsts cosmo politan poll tan |