A Thousand' Mile Walk 



for the ashes of art; and strong evergreen arms 

 laden with ferns and tillandsia drapery are 

 spread over all — Life at work everywhere, 

 obliterating all memory of the confusion of man. 



In Georgia many graves are covered with a 

 common shingle roof, supported on four posts 

 as the cover of a well, as if rain and sunshine 

 were not regarded as blessings. Perhaps, in this 

 hot and insalubrious climate, moisture and sun- 

 heat are considered necessary evils to which 

 they do not wish to expose their dead. 



The money package that I was expecting did 

 not arrive until the following week. After stop- 

 ping the first night at the cheap, disreputable- 

 looking hotel, I had only about a dollar and a 

 half left in my purse, and so was compelled to 

 camp out to make it last in buying only bread. 

 I went out of the noisy town to seek a sleeping- 

 place that was not marshy. After gaining the 

 outskirts of the town toward the sea, I found 

 some low sand dunes, yellow with flowering soli- 

 dagoes. 



I wandered wearily from dune to dune sink- 

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