ON THE MANUSCRIPTS OF GOD 



cism. The writer consequently determined 

 to discover the key to the pictograph, re- 

 membering that far more difficult feats were 

 achieved by those who studied the Rosetta 

 stone until it led to the decipherment of the 

 ancient monuments of Egypt. In a case 

 like this, however, the outer eye was ob- 

 viously of little use in comparison with the 

 subliminal one. By the light of the latter, 

 the gracefully intricate lines of the Pine 

 Pictograph at last yielded their secrets, al- 

 though the reader needs to bear in mind that 

 the English language can give but a meager 

 notion of the quaint and dainty fancies of 

 the original. But the following free trans- 

 lation may give the general trend of the 

 Scolytidian musings carved on the bough: 



O, cool sweet woods about me 

 Where young leaves bud, and swaying ferns 

 Salute the breezy morn; 

 O, juicy luscious pine-bark made for us, 

 And mosses soft that tremble not 

 When earth-gnomes dance with down-light feet 

 To murmurous music of the leaves. 

 Awake! ye dainty snails, that sleep in cradles 

 strange, 



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