The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-10-23


like wings:
Teaching Us by most persuasive reasons.
How akin they are 10 human things.
And with childlike, credulous affection
We behold their tender buds expand.
Emblems OF our own great resurrection,
Emblems Of the bright and better land
CLARA L. CLUM.
Lave thou in nature, Live
With the stars and the winds:
Take all the wild world can give,
All thy free spirit finds.
Finds while the seasons pour
Their braveries at thy feet;
When the ice-rimmed rivers roar,
Or summer waves their rote repeat
Let thy hushed heart take It's oil
or the manifold voice Of the trees,
When leahess winter crowns the hill
And shallow waters freeze.
Let budding spring be thine,
And autumn. brown and debonair,
DAYS that darken and nights that shine
Let all the round year by thy fare.
Let not one full hour pass
Frultless for thee, in all its varied
length:
Take sweetness from the grass.
Take from the storm It's strength.
Take beauty from the dawn,
Patience from the sure seeds delay;
Take gentleness from the light with
drawn,
And every yirture from the wholesome
day.
Mrs. ?. l. BARRINGER.
Each individual has personal associates
who attract by their distinct characters
tics. but Ito him who IN love of nature
A. r4l.
she speaks a various language" The
brook flowing through the meadow sings
in all seasons. a song Of cOntentment
Galleries of art are visited to satisfy the
esthetic sense, but no genius with brush
and paint can portray a picture so beau
tful as that hung IN the Western sky at
twilight. nor does any one like to dismiss
readily from mind the memory OF how
spellbound the feelings were held by the
play of the moOnbeams on the placid
lake. The cataract thundeTs down the
mountain glen. yet its loud voice speaks
sOOthingly 10 the restless, while the pat
ter Of rain on the roof at nightfall en-
tees brain and handw0rkers 10 enjoy
refreshing sleep. a stroll in the woods
on an afternoon in summer will impress
one that he is In a sanctuary Of prayer,
and the solemnity of the atmosphere will
be broken only by the choir of birds
chanting an anthem Of praise and thanks
giving In time friendship with people
tells its own delightful story. but COM
partnership with nature Will find tongues
in trees books in the running brooks
sermons in stones. ard good in every
thing" LOUIS YARNUM WOULFE.
Nature initiates herself. A grain thrown
int
principle thrown into a good mind brings
forth fruit. Everything is created and
conducted by the same Master, the root,
the branch, the fruit. the principles. the
consequences. 4. F. PENNYWILL
One touch Of natures hand has made
The whole world close akin;
And all the families of earth
In nature. then, begin.
Nature is like mountain bold,
Exchanging in its base;
Likewise, must man and everything
Keep right within their place.
Nature is like a river great.
No matter how il flows;
The current passes as the time,
Yet still it never goes.
Nature is like the day and night,
Eternal, and no change;
They move along, perform their work,
Within a natural range.
Nature is like the architect
Desired how things should be:
Designs He made, and finished all
The great ones and the wee.
Nature is like an immense cone
standing as a tower.
And man the crown, with all things else
Beneath his mighty power
VICTOR L. HAMMER.
In the woods is perpetual youth"
Those know but little Of the meaning OF
the natural world who have looked at il
through the eyes of others and from
books or cameras taken their impression.
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