The National tribune., 1896-05-21
WHEN THE COWS COME HOME.


The cows are coming home:
Mnlvlne and Pearl aud Florin,el
Dekamp, Rsdrose aud Gretchen Sehen
Queen Bess, and Syiph ard Spangied Sue
Across the fields hear her 10000,
4 nd c!ang her silver bell;
Cooling, go-lang, solinglcingle;
With faint. far sounds that mingle.
The cows come slowly home;
Aud mother songs of lons-Sone years,
Aud baby joys and childish tears,
And youthful hopes and youthful fears,
When The cows come homo.
With ringle, range, ringe,
BY twos and threes and single
The cows coming home;
Through tiie violet air we see the town.
Aud the Summer a-slippiug down;
The maple in the hazel glade
Throws down tho path longer shade,
AnI the hills are growing brown;
TO-riHg, to-rnns io-rineiensie,
By threes and fours aud single
The cows cpme slowly home;
The same sweet sounds of wordless psalm,
Tie same sweet june day rest and calm,
The same sweet scent Of bud aud baln
When the cows come home.
With tinkle, tsnklc. tinkie.
Through fern and periwibkle,
The cows coming home;
lettering in the checkered stream,
Where the sun-rays glanse and CLEAN.
Starine. Peachbloom and Phoebe Phyllis
Stand knee-deep in the creamy lilies
In drowsy dream:
To-link, to link, io-linkleliulse,
Ger banks with buitcreups a-twinkls
The come slowly home;
Andup through Memory's deep rnvue
Come the brooks old song and its old time sheen.
And the crescent of the silver Queen,
When the cows come home.
With singie. klangfe, klingle
With 10000 and moooo and jingle,
The cows coming home;
And over there on Merlin Hill
Hear the Plaintve cry of the whip poor-wills
The dewdrops lie on the tangled vines
And over the poplhrs Venus shines,
And over the silent mill;
Koiing, ko-Iang, ko-linglelinsIe,
With ting-a-liug and jingle
The cows como slowly home;
Let down the bars, let In the train
or long gone songs and flowers and rain.
For dear old times come back again.
When the cows come home
Agncs E Mitchell. in The Ar0onauL
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Our flower beds demand attention nowadays.
1t is high wedding time in the gardens The
aphides are out in great force attacking the
roses. However, they succumb 10 liberal soap
snds-they are no better than little tramps-
or to kerosene emulsion, or to some of the to-
bacco preparations. One may have a little in
terest in the tiny green bugs after learning
that they are tho ants cows; but even this
recognition OF their value in inscct-life will
not make us forgive them for pasturing on our
La France aud Jacqueminot roses. aud not
even sparng our dainty tea-rose buds. So We
wash them off or spray them, and hope that
the wise little ants will some time learn to
keep their COWS elsewhere.
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1t is said that nastuTtums will do better in
a box than in Ted. Now is the time to see
to it that the sweet peas have some support
If they be started right when tho first little
terdrils come out. they will grow right all
Summer. 1t is the old rule, As the twig is
bent Pansies gay and quaint as
ever, and are worth an honorable place in any
garden, though they do not look pretty in a
border encireing big bed OF scarlet gcra-
niums-an arrangement TO be seen in the door
yard of the residence ola prominent Washing
tonian. Roses aud heliotrope make charm
ing combination of scent and color for garden
beds.