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He shall be happy whilst he woos, 

 Muse-born, a daughter of the Muse. 



PINE NEEDLES 



BY WILLIAM H. HAYNE 



IF Mother Nature patches 

 The leaves of trees and vines, 



I'm sure she does her darning 

 With the needles of the pines. 



They are so long and slender; 



And sometimes, in full view, 

 They have their thread of cobwebs, 



And thimbles made of dew. 



A TEMPLE 



BY ANNA BAGSTAD 



DID many of us ever really see a tree ? We focus 

 our eyes on a great many things which in reality we 

 never see at all. How blind we are to the common 

 things around us wilfully blind because they are 

 common! But it is the common things, after all, 

 that are the most wonderful. 



Take one of the thousands and millions of leaves 

 on a tree. What is a leaf ? It may not be so hard 

 to find a fairly satisfactory dictionary definition for 



