DAYS IN MY GARDEN 



Trees in their blooming, 

 Tides in their flowing, 

 Stars in their circling, 

 Tremble with song. 



God on His throne is 

 Eldest of poets : 

 Unto His measures 

 Moveth the Whole. 



WILLIAM WATSON. 



The problems of origin and destiny, of life, mind, and matter, 

 press closer on the thoughts of each succeeding generation ; but 

 the riddle of beauty, its source and end, is to us at times as deep 

 and wonderful as any. Beauty exercises such a sway over us, 

 and is so widely spread upon earth and sky and water, that we 

 must be in a dark mood to question some highness in its origin 



and end. 



G. A. B. DKWAU. 



THE SHORTEST DAY 



THERE are some days about which much has been 

 written and justly so. St Valentine's day, May-day, 

 Midsummer-day they are times when Nature just 

 comes and takes our heart and makes it larger larger 



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by filling it with joy yet there is another day, often 

 forgotten, which should be called Hope-day, or the 



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