

"Better to search the fields for health- unbought, 

 Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. 



The wise for health on exercise depend. 



God never made his work for man to mend." 



AN ECLIPSE AMONG THE ALPS. 



BY H. F. HKGXEE, DECORAH, IOWA. 



V0L2. 1 . GRESG0, IA., APRILi, '55. N0. 4. 



Far along the frozen glaciers 



Where the milky waters leap, 

 Through the fresh and quiet valleys, 



Down the gorges wild and deep. 



Creeps the night: The stars are shining 

 In the twilight and the gloom: 



Drifting through the Alpine heavens, 

 Gently shines the rising moon. 



Now she's climbing upward; shadows 

 Dropping from the summit's crest, 



AVrap the valleys in the darkness, 



Slumber on the mountain's breast. 



Hut the earth has trailed her shadow 



Far out into empty space; 

 And the moon walks through the shadow 



With earth's image on her face. 



Oh, how often has that journey 



By a human soul been made; 

 Passing through this world of trouble, 



Into sunshine — out of shade! 



Long I watch her evening journey 

 Far above the mountain's reach; 



Her sad face is almost human, 

 With an eloquence of speech. 



For my soul is ever climbing, 



Through an Alpine world of thought; 

 Giant Blancs to be surmounted 



Icy battles to be fought. 



— Dubuque Herald. 



