SWAYING TREE TOPS 



admitted to the select company 

 whose symbol is the violet. 



The road that ran ahead to the 

 Falls, my intended destination, lay 

 blistering in the noon-day heat, and 

 it was not as inviting as the cool of 

 the veranda. It was more pleasant 

 to sit there and watch the distant 

 shadows trailing across the valley and 

 up the forested slopes while I listened 

 to the voice of this mountain girl. 

 We talked about the quiet of the hill 

 home, about its uneventful life, 

 changed only as the seasons changed, 

 about its gift of an atmosphere for 

 meditation and for innocence. There 

 was some little hint now and then in 

 her conversation of a visit prolonged 

 with city friends, but ever there was 

 the note of contentment, and the in- 



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