WILD PASTURES 



pearls, finding in them a medicine that 

 shall cure all ills. In the rain the foun- 

 tain of youth wells up in the cup of 

 every flower that waits in the soft pas- 

 ture grasses and the grasses themselves 

 drink eagerly. The cedars deck them- 

 selves in these clear pearls, wearing 

 garments fringed with them and ropes 

 and necklaces without number, and let- 

 ting their prim propriety be so softened 

 that they are no longer firm and erect 

 but take on curves of soft roundness 

 that should go with pearl-embroidered 

 garments. 



Yesterday there was in all the pasture 

 people a certain puritanical sternness of 

 demeanor, a set holding fast to the nar- 

 rowing good of life, a tightening of the 

 muscles that are weary with a long 

 strain but may not for the good of the 

 soul loose their firm grip, for yesterday 

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