. Overheard in a garden. JONAH EN ROUTE It is the Third Day Out — or (if you pinMe strictly to the Truth) the Third Day day the Sea tempestuous has wrought,And yet I dont feel lonesome as T ought,When I consider that I am the oneAnd only passenger aboard, with noneTo tell me Stories older than the Sun,92 Or make me wagers on the Daily Run,Or, if exclusively inclined, to happened thiswise: once I took a shipFor Tarshish, and, to read upon the Trip,Had brought your Little Book of Garden Lore,Upon the which I set exceeding as I read, lost in a happy dream,There waxed a se
. Overheard in a garden. JONAH EN ROUTE It is the Third Day Out — or (if you pinMe strictly to the Truth) the Third Day day the Sea tempestuous has wrought,And yet I dont feel lonesome as T ought,When I consider that I am the oneAnd only passenger aboard, with noneTo tell me Stories older than the Sun,92 Or make me wagers on the Daily Run,Or, if exclusively inclined, to happened thiswise: once I took a shipFor Tarshish, and, to read upon the Trip,Had brought your Little Book of Garden Lore,Upon the which I set exceeding as I read, lost in a happy dream,There waxed a sea that smote upon our beamWith such a smite that every one was floored;My precious Little Book went Overboard,And I leaped after, of my own accord. I saved my Book, and rose in time to hail This very opportunely passing Whale, Within whose dim Cetacean Saloon I find my solitude a Precious Boon; For as I read your Garden oer and oer, I care not if I 7iever reach the Shore. 93. LADY MACBETH Since t is by every one agreed,To say that He tvho runs may read ;Then she who walks^ though with less haste,The joys of Literature may I who pace this spectral floor,Doing my perpetual encoreOf Lifes Performance oer and moments spare, however to your ^ Garden for relief94 From gore and ghosts with fearful eyes,- To Cupids, Bees, and Butterflies, And Roses, who revive in me The Hope that some day I may be By their exotic exorcism, Quite cured of my somnambulism. 95
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