Putnam patriot., 1927-09-16

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 Take nete, Q residents iu country sides and speak the gentlemen of tho. road fan You may mol. m so dong be adding to the fantasy of a writer and d scholar: but you will assuredly be enrichlng yourself and your fellow man, and adding te the gaiety and trust of nations.
 ts an example of the far reach ing reflection 10 he found in these pages. all enKendcred by the aspects of the road, quote:
 Connecticut alone. and even h. tle Fairfield, suggests what may be the nature If our end meanng world end We may go out 1f eaaese. n some vast collision aa the highway of the stars. some splendid coda If tire and uproar consistent with our estimate of Che planet import auee hat the probability E that We 5tall merely eool and dWiudIe ear hy year fhe forest will crowd back upon us plotting the fields We have cleared. blocking our roads. eras= ing aaH boundaries. and our No Tres passing 5igns making merry havoc eftb all he Btae lines and cots and printed names @e have put down on aur REtFs. EnHdaH and Paris, Chicago aHi Manhattan land eYpu the F.ter- nal City herself will ge as Fairfield paR efsihiF going uDitl the oak and beach and pine have taken back thelf aHH
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 ti haye never seen it observed what I Wide difference there is between the different hifd5 in the matter of leisure ]. Some binds seem tu have no leisure I whatever. and others have nothing | else The wood thrush in the tuneful season must live chiefly upon his own song for he wastes little time In for aging after gresser sustenance But the English sky-lark is almost ostentatIous in his contempt for all ! gainful occupation. etc,
 \ lover q knower of trees and rocks [ and bare brown earth. this Harvest ! of q Quiet Eye proves William Odell I Shepard 10 be that first, then n low CT of his kind in its essence. Nature, f animate and iuanimate hold, for him | ,hc secrets of eternity, to be pounder- ed with q gay but none the less solemn spirit.
 The pages of this book. charming and profound are decorated with co- pious drowiugs by Beatrice Stevens, which. together with the text have found much praise with the reviewers
 Prose. at times proves inadequate for the writers feeling. and some bits ef verse result The following in con- l clusian. seems t9 voice the upshot of . the whole matter
 Only a rambler with heart washed
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 Of sorruWs and old regrets Lineera alone in the quiet here
 Of the road that tbe world forget And follow it loiterne. down che glen
 Dim hammered with golden-rad Out of the thoughts and the needs of