. Book of the Royal blue . THE LIVING CHORD. BY ARTHUR J. BUKIUfK. HE harp, with its delicate, sensitive strings, When tenderly touched with skill,Awakes a melody sweet that ringsOn waiting ear; and it wings and flingsThe harmony rare, that finds and brings To the heart a tender thrill. My heart, like a sensitive lyre that had known No thrill of the artists thy tender touch found voice and tone;Inspired by thy will alone, my own !A melody rare and sweet has grown— A symphony clear and grand. And the quiver and throb, and the rhythmic thrill Of my heart, thy hand swept oer,Nor time in p
. Book of the Royal blue . THE LIVING CHORD. BY ARTHUR J. BUKIUfK. HE harp, with its delicate, sensitive strings, When tenderly touched with skill,Awakes a melody sweet that ringsOn waiting ear; and it wings and flingsThe harmony rare, that finds and brings To the heart a tender thrill. My heart, like a sensitive lyre that had known No thrill of the artists thy tender touch found voice and tone;Inspired by thy will alone, my own !A melody rare and sweet has grown— A symphony clear and grand. And the quiver and throb, and the rhythmic thrill Of my heart, thy hand swept oer,Nor time in passing, nor death can damp of the grave can chill or kill;But the sweet, vibrating music will Continue, love, evermore. BERKELEY SPRINGS, THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH. EVER since His Lordship Gov. Berkeleyruled supreme over the Old Dominion,Berkeley Springs has been known tohave the most meritorious drinking andbathing water in North America. In the. STREET IN BERKELEY. fertile valley could be cultivated and theproduce transported by this waterwayto the eastern cities in time, when com-pared with the poor and hilly roads, ashours to days. During the Civil War the town andcountry for miles surrounding wereused alternately by the Union andConfederate armies. It was throughhere that General -Jackson whenon one of his northern raids, but onthat occasion he succeeded in gettingonly as far north as Hancock, Md.,just six miles away. Up to the time of the burning ofthe large hotel six years ago, Berkeleywas at its zenith, for then the promi-nent society balls that were given therehad a national reputation. Even nowpeople come here unaware of the de-struction of that building only to findnumerous boarding houses in its stead- old colonial days it was the rendezvousfor all the dignitaries of that time;the Washingtons, Adamses and Ran-dolphs used to assemble here and inthis wilderness—at least so then—remained for months at a tim
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