. Book of the Royal blue . MUNION. HENRV EDWARD WARNER. SAY! have you seen the bright eyes in the dew, The blushing wild rose in the lap of the twilight,The smile of the trees, and the heavenly blueOf violets nodding and nodding to you ? O, say! have you sat where the gray rocks adorn The breast of the mountain, Gods treasure-house guarding,And heard the soul-song of the day newly bornAnd nurtured in love, in the arms of the morn? IllO, sayl have you walked where the forest sprite springs And strews smiling flowers to w^elcome your harked to <he flutter of myriad wingsWhere each f
. Book of the Royal blue . MUNION. HENRV EDWARD WARNER. SAY! have you seen the bright eyes in the dew, The blushing wild rose in the lap of the twilight,The smile of the trees, and the heavenly blueOf violets nodding and nodding to you ? O, say! have you sat where the gray rocks adorn The breast of the mountain, Gods treasure-house guarding,And heard the soul-song of the day newly bornAnd nurtured in love, in the arms of the morn? IllO, sayl have you walked where the forest sprite springs And strews smiling flowers to w^elcome your harked to <he flutter of myriad wingsWhere each feathered creature its rhapsodies sings? O, say! has your soul left its narrow confines And bounded away to the bidding of Nature,Or fragrance inhaled from the life-giving pines,Or balsamed its grief neath the berry-hung vines? VGo, then, where bright flowrs gem the emerald give, for a moment, thyself to there, where mayhap no profane foot hath soul, in sweet peace, may commune with its WORLDS FAIR PALACE OF TRANSPORTATIONAND TRANSPORTATION EXHIBIT. ERECTED at a cost of 1692,000. dinifn-sions 559 by 1300 feet, covering:; anarea of 155 acres, such is the homeof transportation exhibits at the LouisianaPurchase Exposition. This mammoth building was turned overby the contractors in December, and theinstallation of products of mans ingenuityin the creation of means for locomotion,brought from all over the world, will becommenced at once. When Louisiana Territory was purchasedfrom France, in , the methods of trans-portation were principally the flatboat andthe pack-horse; to-day the same territoryhas 65,000 miles of railway, its rivers aretraversed by great fleets, and the telegraph,t(k|>hone and trolley wires are weaving aclose network over its entire surface. The exhibits in the Palace of Transpor-tation will show the most advanced achieve-ments in railway building, equipment, main-tenance and ojieration, also a history of therailway as
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