Show MAY DAY This fair firat May morning recalls the happy days of the past and brings back to memory the sweet songs of the poets who have praised the Spring As one looks around upon the valley clad in verdure ver-dure and flowers and sees the many happy smiling children as they wend their way to the hills and the dales to minge their merry voices with the songs of the birds < there come happiness and dreams of the days when the pastoral life was the only life and the world was without sin and without sorrow To seethe see-the children as they run and ramble among the flowers themselves sweeter and fairer than any flower though the flower be the lily of the valley of which the Savior said that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of them is a sight to cheer the heart of the weariest and to take from off the soul the sadness of life True indeed it is that of such is the kingdom of heaven and why should they who seek that kingdom spend their lives in strife and turmoil in bitterness and in hatred preferring condemnation con-demnation to forgiveness accusation to repentance never remembering that of all Christian virtues charity is the greatest It was in such days as this that Sherwood Sher-wood Forest rang with the shouts of joy and the peals of laughter of merry Robin Hoods band of English yeomen When the day was bright and the sky was blue in Sherwood Forest as here today then I AllanaDale sang sweetest then Robin himself drew his truest bow and Will Scarlet felt his sinews grow strongest On such days as these Little John was wont to wander forth to find a fat friar and to relieve him of the gold which he had taken from the sheep of his fold Ah I Robin HoDd you and your band I were lawless but you and your band j were loyal when good king Richard I forgave you for your sins against the I Sheriff of Nottingham and those who oppressed I op-pressed the poor And despoiled the widows I wid-ows and made of you his truest soldiers I You were a merry band but you were a j brave and generous one and all who I I know you hold you in fondest remembrance remem-brance The May Day should be toll to-ll a day of forgiveness and forgetfulness as it is a day when the I hearts of the children are glad and he I who would remember a wrong in the presence of so much happiness must have forgotten the days of his childhood or I I else that childhood must have been a hard one so hard as to have crowded out the II gentler emotions It is one day of spring tin t-in the human life when most are fast j leaving that season and approaching the I winterof life from which we emerge into I I death and oblivion i |