. The book of months . i^fi -rrvr-—----- •;;?f#% sHI i;\j^--k-* ,44 f //• m^f^M. THE BOOK OF MONTHS How well I know what I mean to doWhen the long, dark autumn evenings come ! There speaks the healthful man. Browning sethimself to read Greek—prose he tells us, notpoetry now, for he was old. Yet so green andfull of immortal youth were his years that in hisreverie dwelling on the past no falling-leafdirge comes to his lips, but the passionate lyricrapture of love relived. But the point just nowis that when the autumn evenings were near hegave himself a task, set himself to do something,opene

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. The book of months . i^fi -rrvr-—----- •;;?f#% sHI i;\j^--k-* ,44 f //• m^f^M. THE BOOK OF MONTHS How well I know what I mean to doWhen the long, dark autumn evenings come ! There speaks the healthful man. Browning sethimself to read Greek—prose he tells us, notpoetry now, for he was old. Yet so green andfull of immortal youth were his years that in hisreverie dwelling on the past no falling-leafdirge comes to his lips, but the passionate lyricrapture of love relived. But the point just nowis that when the autumn evenings were near hegave himself a task, set himself to do something,opened a bottle of the only real tonic the worldcontains, which is Work. And most of us cer-tainly need that tonic more in winter than insummer. In summer the mere fact that we sitat the great banquet of the spectacle of sun andflowers and green things is royal the year turns, the lights burn lower, andwe have to employ ourselves, lest, like childrenin the dusk, we quake at the gathering one sets ones self to do, I think, matters248 ifc;

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