EARLIEST BUTTERFLIES 



wall of logs, just as he built those of the 

 house above it. 



You may find by careful search the 

 worn path to the spring nearby, for that 

 which is written on the earth itself remains 

 visible long after inscriptions on stone are 

 gone. The wind and the sun, the frost and 

 the rain, will erase the carving from your 

 marble tablet. But the path across a plain, 

 once worn deep and firm by many passing 

 feet, will always show its tracing to the 

 discerning eye. Perhaps a huge old 

 apple-tree stump may have lasted till now, 

 even showing faint signs of life, and round 

 about what was the immediate dooryard 

 the trees of the wood may cluster ; but they 

 will hold back and leave some open space, 

 as if they still respected invisible bounds 

 set by the long departed human occupant. 



There seem to be many such sleepy hol- 

 lows in my town, spots where dreams 



