SWAYING TREE TOPS 



blade, until the earth was billowed 

 with foliage. At this moment of the 

 summit season one can walk through 

 aisles, dim and shadowy, and feel 

 shut out from sky above and neigh- 

 bors on all sides. As all this has 

 been transpiring upon the earth, in 

 one's heart and mind there has gone 

 on a like transformation, by the 

 arousing of the dormant faculties, 

 the warming of the heart, the racing 

 of the better motives, until one's ex- 

 perience billows up, full and fra- 

 grant, making many a path of seclu- 

 sion, where one may walk at will and 

 enjoy an evening quiet. All this has 

 been. It is a certainty. 



On the other slope the swift days 

 run down to the gate of autumn, 

 which stands ajar awaiting them. 



