Meadow and Mountain 



shadows is that not worth the seeing? If it makes some- 

 body glad to see the globes of dew, even among the weeds, 

 is not that gladness good? 



Have you seen the dew on the corn leaves ;little lakes 



of dew on the corn leaves? Then 

 have you seen the thirsty birds 

 drink drink dew from the corn 

 leaves on a summer morning? The 

 ministry of freshness is in the dew, 

 the ministry of hope is in the dew, 

 the ministry of health is in the 

 dew, the ministry of life and love 

 -the sweet ministry of God is in 

 the dew. 



I have seen the spider's web 

 all tapestried with dew. Dew does 

 not discriminate between a spider's 

 web and a ragged robin-rose. Dew 

 would as soon distill on a spider's 

 web as in a morning-glory's cup. 

 But the spider web is full of dew, 

 and the spider web is hanging in 

 the hedge, and the hedge is hung 

 across with the spider's silver cur- 

 tain; and while it lasts no palace curtain, woven of the 

 finest lace, could be more beautiful. You shall surely see, 

 if you shall look, that the curtains in the hedge are as ex- 

 quisite as the curtains in the house. 



Many a time I have washed the soil from a boy's brown 

 feet in the dripping dews among the grass. Would that a 

 man's heart could be washed as crystal-clean as a boy's 

 brown feet by the dripping dews ! But the cleansing dews of 



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