Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 177, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1911 — A BRIGHTENING PROSPECT. [ARTICLE]

A BRIGHTENING PROSPECT.

Of woodland ways the poets sing. When Fancy tunes the lyre lb spring. The bursting bud, the balmy breeze, .. The birds that warble In the trees; The song of brooks, the flashing sun. The spider's web, but newly spun; The mossy bank that lures to dreams And all the rustic life that tearn*. With vernal stir, delight the s6ut However many years may roll Across the hollow wastes of life. With fell mischance and sorrows rife. When spring revivifies the world. Her blazing standards fast unfurled. The saddest heart yields to the spell And Hope affirms. “All will be welt”