If I were you, and other things . is the Is that wind,or is some fairy shaking the Is thatfaint sunshine, or what has given to thebranches that appearance, as of gold uponthe Do I see Did that saucylittle raindrop wink at me as he skipped,humming, from last years flower-stalk to[82] ifetter and sfteeDom of fnomtmv join a group of rollicking companions in therill by the road? Is there a hint of green inthe fields? Where is my fetter of monotony?Where my shut-inness? This is color, song,motion, freedom! Yes, yes! but where is the restfulness thataccompanied my
If I were you, and other things . is the Is that wind,or is some fairy shaking the Is thatfaint sunshine, or what has given to thebranches that appearance, as of gold uponthe Do I see Did that saucylittle raindrop wink at me as he skipped,humming, from last years flower-stalk to[82] ifetter and sfteeDom of fnomtmv join a group of rollicking companions in therill by the road? Is there a hint of green inthe fields? Where is my fetter of monotony?Where my shut-inness? This is color, song,motion, freedom! Yes, yes! but where is the restfulness thataccompanied my fetter of grayness? Wasnot that a kind of freedom? Why can I nolonger think my own thoughts in the samequiet? What means this renewed nerve stim-ulus and tension? Why do the problems oflife now seem suddenly to tumble, insistent,upon me? Shall I choose the fetter of grayness, with itsfreedom in monotony? Shall I choose thefreedom of light, with its fetter of enforcedexcitement and its strenuous action ? [83 1 aiiSD to tl^e point. OIMETIMES I think thatour happiness dependschiefly on our cheerful ac-ceptance of routine, on ourrefusal to assume, as manydo, that daily work anddaily duty are a kind of slavery. If we canlearn to think of routine as the best econ-omy, we shall not despise it. People call itbenumbing; and so it is if we do not under-stand it; but if we understand that throughit we can do more work in less time, andhave more time left for the expansion of oursouls, that through it we cultivate the habitwhich makes people know we can be countedon, we shall cease to say hard things of it.—LeBaron Russell Briggs. We pass from the sense of study as an obli-gation to the sense of study as an opportu-nity. —Francis G. Peabody. In short, without much matter what our work be, whether this or that, it is because, and [84] aijso to ti^e point only because of the rut, plod, grind, hum-drum in the work, that we at last get thoseself-foundations laid of which I spoke—at-tenti
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