Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1913 — Winter Sonnet. [ARTICLE]

Winter Sonnet.

A stream is rippling through a valley where It rippled twenty thousand years ago, And probably when it began to flow Some pebbles it is washing now were there, And doubtless, as the stream ran past/ the fair Green stretches to the greatei stream below It gladdened some one who, with cheeks aglow, Sat by itß shore, a stranger te all care. But what care I if others by the stream Once listened to the tinkling tune it made, Or gladly sat and saw the pebbles gleam, Or watched the shadows that across it played? I sit in easy comfort, warmed by steam, And dictate to a girl who is a dream.