SWAYING TREE TOPS 



folks built that "upright and lean- 

 to " on the side of the hill away from 

 the river, and facing into another 

 hill, when they might have put a cot- 

 tage near the top of the other slope, 

 that would have furnished a prospect, 

 winter and summer, across the valley, 

 where the shallow river makes music 

 in its rapids. 



Live folks do such queer things 

 for themselves and with themselves, 

 while often they do better with the 

 dead. Yonder is the cemetery, beau- 

 tiful even in the bareness of Novem- 

 ber, with its trees and hedge and 

 long vista down the valley which its 

 dead cannot get up to see. 



But with all the mistakes and queer 

 things that folks who live in the 

 country do when they select the loca- 



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