The Washington herald., 1919-06-29

E trails where the feet of the wild beast padded path
the brook The mterminabe of ways that
s...a that could would be infinite beauty of
$3#S$# naceres infinite the broad of earth the
*3*::3*:l star trails the broads of the sky.
U Beast trail and trail of the winged folk of the
der ores-cunningly laid down by instincts compass.
Then the eeoot where aboriginal of all nations
rzoned h his individual cternd waters the rocks
ce of hunting and fishing; Of wild fruits haresngs and wild
sns thresng floors Hard beat by bare human feet
for tribes traffic and take flaming paths and
go wooing over-rbe be-and bearing gifts
the windy To take the field and the forest yields and
in the barter s3o Commerce heads of people and back of
and the raft of wihed logs.
What unspeakabe lure there have been to that wild
primal heart of those jouneyms Those daes the
nknown-he farther side of the neighbor beand then beyond
ITO twists tongue all and skin of faces black and yellow
nd red-tha latest skin of face found when trails and
ounded highway and road and wihed raft of logs the all
them oceans beaches and dipped deep into the dare of
pathessn All the of the earth down by the
shores of the
That stately journey of the Three Riders the East
lamp lit by swung the sky. going before Mechoir
oar and Batasar with camels kngaden of gold and franklin
and mynh-across the sand dunes and sanddancngs and
Il rings, the cool hills of Judea.
! . And bearing gfts-not barter
But the very of transportation of all the ages the
three camels riding into the royal birth the be of
an old hlltown inn bearing gifts
And from the Asian shores beyond the Phine
fields of rye the ships of Tyre sailed Her feet shall bear
II affair."" said prophe-and Tyres beautiful ships the
:. of advenung bearing her her westward way-even
say Yucatan where Tyn-carved temples still make splendid
forests of darkest America
should like have ridden those old Mesopotamian canals
crossed when he fled from that other older of his father
should like have travelled the Kings roads that laid finger
the Land of Egypt Ethiopia and Sinai and Phisa
n Persia That road that The Child and His Mother jouneyed
> the flight into Egypt
should like have summed midnight in the campfire
abouts pyramid and listened her laughter and low hummed
2 bies-and to her tears. perhaps
should like have poed the when the coonsts were
wing homes along the ancient buffalo as-aong the
ases and moccasin ootpahed trails the Long House the
,hons-to yellow Mississippi floods Id like have saddled
oeotnents backbone and hunted her springs
"a sod vened hoard of her hills when her hills yet unred
isry young the white shouting the white
. n, boast and the white mans glory above them
The great heartgpping pndor of the Romance of Trans
rtahonl
The sting of sand blown from the DESERT soaring bold faces
ayens and ord-m The sound of deep
sucked hoos the Kissing of winds and whip of stars blown
out and the live world lost.
The simmer of sails beyng black winds the wizardy of
Columbus great adventure backed by queens pawned Jewels
The purple peaks remote that led Spanish up to the
y of the nca and the unsountabe wealth of
Honebaekns into the conquest of world: even a. in h.