SPRINGS. 



I '11 show thee the best springs. TEMPEST. 



A MAN who came back to the place of his birth in 

 the East, after an absence of a quarter of a century 

 in the West, said the one thing he most desired to 

 see about the old homestead was the spring. This, 

 at least, he would find unchanged. Here his lost 

 youth would come back to him. The faces of his 

 father and mother he might not look upon ; but the 

 face of the spring that had mirrored theirs and his 

 own so oft, he fondly imagined would beam on him 

 as of old. I can well believe that in that all but 

 springless country in which he had cast his lot, the 

 vision, the remembrance of the fountain that flowed 

 by his father's doorway, so prodigal of its precious 

 gifts, has awakened in him the keenest longings and 

 regrets. 



Did he not remember the path, also ; for next to 

 the spring itself is the path that leads to it. Indeed, 

 of all foot-paths, the spring-path is the most suggest 

 ve. 



This is a path with something at the end of it, 



