pleasant, it were an injury and a sullenness against nature not to go out
and see her riches, and partake of her rejoicing with heaven and earth."

* * * * *

The beauty of the world is at every man's door, if he will only pause to
see. It offers every man real riches if only he will now and then quit
his muckraking or pause from paying his life for a cap and bells. It
sweetens honest labor, helps earthly endeavor, strengthens human
affection and leads the soul naturally from the beauty of this world to
the greater beauty of that which is to come.




WALKS IN JUNE WOODS AND FIELDS




VI. WALKS IN JUNE WOODS AND FIELDS.

_Whether we look or whether we listen
We can hear life murmur or see it glisten._
--LOWELL.


As we walk along the bank of the creek on a warm afternoon in June we
realize how true are these lines of Lowell. The frog chorus is dying
down, though now and then we catch sight of a big fellow blowing out his