CORNELL 



Rural School Leaflet 



[FOR BOYS AND GIRLS] 



Published monthly by the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University, from 

 September to May, and entered as second-class matter September 30, 1907, at the post office 

 at Ithaca, New York, under the Act of Congress of July 16, 1894. L. H. Bailey, Director 



ALICE G. McCLOSKEY and EDWARD M. TUTTLE, Editors 



ARTHUR D. DEAN, C. EDWARD JONES, G. F. WARREN, and C. H. TUCK, Advisers 



Vol. 6 ITHACA, N. Y., JANUARY, 191 3 No. 3 



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THE ENCHANTMENT* 



Sara King 



I wonder how the robin's throat 



Hath caught the rain's sweet dripping note, 



That little falling, pelting sound, 



Liquidly clear and crystal round, 



The very heart -rune of the Spring, 



Enchanted of the sky and ground, 



That conjures life from everything. 



No ancient, age-worn witchery, 



No incantation, could set free 



The fast-bound dead ; yet here each day, 



Robin and rain in mystic way 



Bring life back greenly; ah, and how 



One's very heart and pulse obey 



That lure of music ! Listen now . . . 



*From Harper's Magazine, Copyright. 191 2, by Harper & Brothers. 

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