<62 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



In dreamy reflection, 

 Her head bending law, 

 With double back action 

 Swings her tail to and fro. 



Her eyes soft and glowing 

 Like a gentle gazelle's, 

 Deeper depths showing 

 Than the deepest of wells. 



In calm rumination, 

 Seeking through the long day 

 Missing links of creation, 

 Somehow lost on the way. 



Whether back in the ages 

 As Darwin insists, 

 When the world's early stages 

 Were shrouded in mists. 



The ape, like the Arab, 

 Really lived in a tent, 

 If man and his spare rib 

 Came through bovine descent. 



How well I remember 

 The barn and the mow, 

 Over which I would clamber 

 ^letting hay for that cow. 



How I fed her, cut pumpkins 

 In the fall of the year; 1 



I, a plain country bumpkin, -J.iT 



.She a cow without peer. 



