| Show SELECTED VERSE WAITING serene I 1 fold my hands and wait nor care for wind nor tide nor sea I 1 rave no more time or fate for lo 10 my own shall come to me I 1 stay my haste I 1 make delay for what avails this eager pace I 1 stand amid the eternal ways and what is mine shall know my face asleep awake by night or day the friends I 1 see seek k are seeking me no wind can drine drie my bark astray nor change the tide ot of destiny fr C what matter if I 1 stand alone I 1 wait with joy the coming coining years my heart shall reap where it hah bell sown and garner up its fruit of tears the waters know their own and draw the brook that springs in yonder heights so flows the good with wilh equal law unto the soul of pure delights the stars come nightly to the sky the tidal wave unto the sea nor time lime nor space nor deep nor high can an keep my own from me john burroughs 0 A SIMIAN SOLILOQUY A wise old chimpanzee sat musing in a tree how come man has temerity to claim relationship with me ine this evolution theory to me is a disgrace afman if man evolved from chimpanzee id like to change my race this so called cd civilization Would ii satisfy our nation weve had bad no jaila in ages past at modern wars we look aghast though myself im not sedate anever I 1 never yet have killed a mate I 1 even robbed a bank have never smoked nor en even en drank oh lord dont blame it all on me I 1 m innocent as I 1 c can n be no mans not a limb T not a branch is he nor even even a twig of 0 my family family tree laura B van nuys 10 TODAY TO DAY is tomorrows may not come nor any dreams of deafest mold be realized and muted eyes may never clasp the gleam of the simplicity they once surmised As living nor the fingers fold at res rest it about the peace they long would have possessed I 1 tomorrows to morrows may not conic come but we can say against the haunting hunger of the lh heart at least this shining shiu ncr hour of tos today day lay belongs to us and is of u us a part no ruthlessness of time or place can stir to death nor memory con constrict or blu blur r V jerry evans I 1 |
