SPRING IN THE CITY 



my room their far-reaching gaze seems to bring 

 me into closer and more constant touch with the 

 mysterious laws of the universe. These stars, 

 too, are the most unfailing of all our season-marks, 

 sky-flowers, " faithful through a thousand years." 

 The stars which companion me these April nights 

 are not those which glittered in the winter 

 heavens. And by this silent march across my 

 little limited patch of city sky, I am enabled to 

 note the passage of the year more accurately than 

 by any other of those indications which we, with 

 city lives but country loves, look and long for 

 each spring. 



Sky-flow- 

 ers 



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