People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1894 — Man and Nature. [ARTICLE]

Man and Nature.

MOM MUU HKVUMII The mountains, and the forest* and the seas. Oldest of mourners with pathetlo tone, Have eaoh a natural muslo. all their own. Set In aooord with human destinies. Sad, tender, manifold. What Is more sweet Than woodland melodies at noon? More mild Than dlmplbd ocean, like a laughing child That lisps, and rolls a jewel to our feet, • A*** the- —**•-*— —— —» Behold that self-same ocean on the shore Lashes; the forest quakes; with deafening power The rooks are rent. Then, oh I amid that roar Awe-struck we sink, we fall upon our knees, Ye mountains, and ye forests, and ye seas! The mountains and the forests and the seas Have each their muslo, with our mortal lot In sympathy, to soothe, exalt, appease; And man, too, has his muslo; has a note Of world-wide sweetness; tender reveries, Dirges of buried blisses untorgot, Rejoicing ptuans, glorious symphonies; But all of them luck something; they have not The voice once heard In Eden: and the ear, Pleased with rich sound, is us when somo one sings In a great court before a king of kings: He closes and of rapture born, a cheer Shakos tho high roof; but when the Lord of all Speaks, there is awe and sllenoe in the hall. —Spectator.

Nrbbeb measure a mnn’s Intcllec’ by hls size. I hab observed dat line wine is mos’ alius sorved up in small glasses, w’ile slop beer la invariably paraded in schooners.— Arkansaw Thomas Cat.