Book Excerpt: ...EN OR WILL BE FOR YEARS TO COME?* * * * *DOES--The rose in bud respond to the wooing breath of the mornings of June?IS--The whistle of robin red breast clearer and more exultant, as its watchful gaze, bearing in its inscrutable depths the mystery of all the centuries; the Omniscience of DIVINITY, discovers a cherry tree bending to--"The green grass"from the weight of its blood red fruit?* * * * *DOES--The nightingale respond to its mate; caroling its amatory challenge from afar; across brake and dale and glen; beyond a"Dim old forest" the earth bathed in the silver light of the harvest moon * * * * *EVEN SO--And for the same reason which the wisest of us cannot explain, that the rose, the robin and nightingale respond to the lure that invites, the zephyrs that caress, I find myself moved to say not only a word--a few, but many, of praise and commendation of this...
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