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THE A M E RIC A X - S C A X D l X A VIA X R E V1E W 
Before the children coming from the white ship entered the cars 
which were being cleansed and disinfected to take them back to their 
poor homes in Austria and Germany, a tine young Austrian, in khaki, 
made a stirring speech thanking Sweden for mothering these Austrian 
children, some of whom would doubtless not be alive except for Swedish 
care. Then the tall, gray-haired Swedish leader, who seemed as big 
among the children as the statue of Gustavus Adolphus in the Stock¬ 
holm Museum, made response, saying that they must not be thanked 
and that it was a privilege to be allowed to do something for Austria, 
who had given so much through her art, her learning, and especially her 
music, to the world to make it a happier place to live in. And the music 
ot these Austrian children’s voices rising at the end of the speech, was 
as beautiful and moving as anything that their countrymen, Mozart, 
Beethoven, or Strauss, had ever written. 
America has done a wonderfully beneficent work in sending food 
to “invisible guests” in Europe. This is but an illustration—for it is 
done elsewhere too—of what Euroj^e herself is doing by way of enter¬ 
taining “visible guests.” 
Spring Air 
By Teresia Euren 
Translated from the Swedish by Charles Wharton Stork 
Hark to the spring, all barriers overbrimming! 
It even sets the tram way tracks a-swimming. 
In every court and street the sparrows twitter, 
And, foaming like champagne, the breezes glitter. 
Who can believe now but that all is gracious? 
Who can believe that aught has been vexatious? 
The singing life-stream sweeps from recollection 
All melancholy, sluggish introspection. 
Harken! The grass grows, and all forces waken, 
The boughs reach up, with hopef ul longing taken, 
Tor springtime bids them blossom and aspire, 
Now is the time to will and to desire! 
Bend well the bow, think all things wait your winning, 
And farthest goals are reached with fair beginning! 
Give gladly of your strength, with no retraction! ' 
Come, work, for springtime is the time of action! 
