News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-12-28
fHE HEALING Of THE NATIONS.
Revelations %: 81
BY MRS. W. G. WOOD

lhevelations %: 81
BY MRS. W. G. WOOD.
Angel of our highest welfare.
Ever watching DER our progress
Signing, striving morn and evening,
That we will not listen to thee;
Listen to thy kind suggestions
Ever offered for our warning,
For consideration thoughtful
mat we may grow wiser, stronger,
Better fitted for the battle
That is daily rising round us;
Let me ask thee, pray, one question
we who dwell among the mountains
Meath the bare and towering mountains,
Meath the shade of rocks and pine trees
Where the soil is thin and barren,
Fa1n would ask, what use they answer?
What the service they can render?
We would wish the land for farming
Wish to cut the trees and use them.
Much we need the price they bring us.
Gains are small for us who labor;
Barest sustenance obtaining.
Then the watching angel answered
Cut them notl untouched they bring you
worth and treasure unsurpassed.
What would be your mountains, hillsides,
with no clothing of the forest?
Would you see earth turned to desert?
Would you help it TO become so?
Forests call and store the moisture
That will keep the land less barren.
Never cease to love the mountains;
Cherish their unaIteTed presence
Both are placed with president purpose
For the healing of the nations.
Proof that earth for man was ordered.
be you slow to use your power
Set against the course of nature.
Read you here your puzzle answered:
N hn ir,ar, -
Brain of man devised, inventing
From the varied stores around him;
Builds on what was set before him.
Often proving his undoingl
How he seeks still more advancement;
How his brain uneeasing labors
Every nerve set luivering, striving
For the goal of his ideal
How he labors in the midnight
For his idol-p@ Pey, money!
Pushing obstahf behind him.
Piling up palatsx
altering all ofeafen Wonders
For his loved ones, for ambition.
Thus surprising friend or neighbor.
Rest-to him an unknown eharmpr-
Rest he hopes for when he reaches
Utmost goal of his ambition.
watch the crowds the cities send You:
Faces pale and eyes all restless,
faded air and smile of sadness;
They have left their hearts behin them
With the treasure they are pilng.
Men who wonder what they're there for,
Women's hearts all burned to ashes,
Maidens with no eve for nature.
Children who NO more are children
Now the mountains spread before them.
Power and sweetness they have garnerel,
Fresh, sweet air endowed with vgor,
Quiet shed DER hill and forest.
Soothing quiet, brooding. brooding,
Calmng, Strengthening the weary
With its benefit unconscious,
With its healing touch and hope1rI
Not for this they come, ah never
Come because it is the fashion,
For not yet the spell has reached them.
Well the pine trees clothe the mountains.
FINES and spruces, dark hued fir-trees,
Clothe them With stately grandeur
With mystic, solemn beauty;
Fill the air with balm and incense,
Spicy scent, pervading, subtle,
Fit for shrine of health's own goddess;
Fill the clear, sweet air with music.
With the low, soft wind eommuning,
Listening as they stand forever
Reckoning with their myriad finger5.
More shall learn to heed that summons.
More shall feel its influence tender;
They will grow more meditative
Learn to love your still surroundings.
So their youth shall, like the eagles,
BE renewed like the young eagles.
You will catch from their ambition
Flavor for a new enjoyment.
They will of their profit bring YOU
So your lives shall run more nearly.
This shall be the nations healing.