Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-05-25

Countless insects seeking rest
From the days unrest and toll,
From its strife and fierce turmoil,
From its battle for existence:
And with n.otherly assistance
Comes kind night with soothing wing
And allays all suffering.
Nearer still comes leaping gaily
Violet-bordered, joyous brook,
Drawing with its merry babbling
List'ners out Of every nook
In the rocks and trees that cluster
Round in silent ecstasy.
Neither heat nor wint'ry bluster
Robs them of it's melody
AS it sings Of snowclad mountains,
OF its spirit wild and free,
OF its many tricklng fountains,
OF its life so full of glee.
And behind the house, the forest
Full Of shadows wierd and grim,
Goblin -peopled $50 the Legend
In its deepest aisles where dim.
Awe-inspiring silence ever
Reigns with ghostly, potent sway,
Undisturbed by human footsteps,
Gloomy on the brightest day.
Yet it shelters in abundance
Kingly hart and tmid hind
Roaming DER the forest meadows
Free, untrammeled, unconfned
BY stone wall or iron pickets-
Though exposed to deadly lead
Safely screened by leafy thckets
Yielding moss and leaves their bed
Silently stand they, this husband and wife; hush
ed, awed and inspired
Fervently grateful to Him who led them hither
from bondage,
Into this land, full of promise and hope for the
moor and oppressed
Where ones honest endeavors in whatsoever di-
recton
Reap fruitful reward, where tyranny rears not
her standard,
Where no lust-swolen minions Of Church or State
sap the Iifestream
Out of their serfs; where each individual man Is
sovereign
Having a voice guaranteed in making or unmak-
ing statutes
Choosing by right, and in freedom Of will his God
and his ruler
Into this land where the lowliest rise by unaided
exertions
To the loftest place in the gift of critical peo-
ple.-
Fervently grateful they in having home
meath the shelter
Stars and stripes offer all Of whatever creed,
nation or color;
Fervently grateful they for the brightness
unfolding before them,
For the future, laden with promise and hope for
their loved ones!
Homeward and, hand in hand each knowing
the thoughts of the other
Wend they their way, it's but a few steps to the
tent meath the oaktree,
Where the little ones wait and greet them with
boisterous fervor.
Ap5 with ,,,opv q oleaful shout and impatient
gesture,
Unexpressed longing, and wideopen eyes they
listen to papa
Telling them soon the house will be finished and
then they shall live there,
Have large, airy room all their own, to frolic
and play in
During the winter which here is by far not as mild
as in Jersey,
But the contrary quite, and that he with sieighs
will provide them
So they may coast adown the long hill In the
hardbeaten roadbed.
Snowmen and skating, and sport without end
he depicts to his list'ners,
Till little Tommy is tired already of summer, and
signing
Wishes that winter were come with all his beau
ties and glories.
Gently ohiding, his mother rebukes his whimsical
longing,
And ere long, he confesses with candor that sum-
mer and sunshine,
Flowers and birds are better than winter, though
sleighing and skating,
Snowmen and hoarfrosted trees and school, have
each their attractions.
Pleasantly chatting they pass the remainder OF
ev'ning till bedtime
When. after prayers are said, each with loving
goodnight kiss
Sinks into slumber as, watchfully, heavenly orbs
twinkle DER them.