Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1916 — SPRING THOUGHTS. [ARTICLE]

SPRING THOUGHTS.

By Walt Mason.

A .man grows sick of the walls of brick, and the city's endless roar, when old winter goes, with its frosts and snows, and the springtime’s at the door. His soul rebels at the city's smells, and he says to himself, says he. “There are banks of thmve with a scent sublime, and the woodland’s calling me!” His soul revolts at the jars and jolts that the urban dweller- knows, at his sordid task, when he longs to bask in the glen -wheie tile ■ colvslip grows; and he says, “Gee whiz! T am tired of biz, and sick of the sights I see, of the stress and strain for a tawdry gain, when the woodland's calling me!” In all human lives, when the spring arrives, there riceth the wanderlust : and a fellow’s dreams are oT woods and streams, and the long road white with dust. And he heaves a sob as he views, his job, from which he won’t dare to flee: and he says, “By Hoyle! It is hard to toil, when the woodland's calling me!”