. Book of the Royal blue . petty ills;Quiok from the tedium galling (If counting loss and gainTo lie beyond rei-allingThe dullness of the plain. From the far-stretching prairie And never-eniling pictures never vary. With a light heart I passTo the green ranges rifted— Sweet to the plain-sick eye:And my starved soul is lifted Closer to cloud and sky. Here there is room for showing Strong effort worth the while,Not like the going Oer level mile on moods with Natures chiming. Drinking of her delights:Oh, to go ever climbing Up to the mountain heights! The great hills bol
. Book of the Royal blue . petty ills;Quiok from the tedium galling (If counting loss and gainTo lie beyond rei-allingThe dullness of the plain. From the far-stretching prairie And never-eniling pictures never vary. With a light heart I passTo the green ranges rifted— Sweet to the plain-sick eye:And my starved soul is lifted Closer to cloud and sky. Here there is room for showing Strong effort worth the while,Not like the going Oer level mile on moods with Natures chiming. Drinking of her delights:Oh, to go ever climbing Up to the mountain heights! The great hills bold and cragged, The valleys at their near horizon jagged. To my rapt gaze are sweet:My eyes, long tired of dwelling On the flat reach of sod,Now, by the hills compelling, Are raised—and so toward Uod. Storing my soul with treasures Of the ennobling Nature s|dlls her pleasures Freely to him who wills,I am grown rich, uncaring How the swift summer wanes,Till I go back to sharing The poverty of Book of the Royal Blue. rriil-ISHKI) IIV THE Passenger Department of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. Vol. III. BALTIMORE, JULY, 1900. No. THE BATTLE OF ANTIETAM. IT was immediately after the llattle of An-tietam that the Kmancipation Proclama-tion was issued. President Ijincoln hadhoped that with the complete defeat of theConfederate forces at this time, there was Prefatory, it may be remarked that < !en-eral Lee had steadily fought his way north-ward through the Shenandoah Valley allthrough the Spring ami Summer of iSCj^, inhis determined effort to enter Pennsylvania,
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