. Book of the Royal blue . divine The train announcers long, mixed roll Of gruff-called places on the scroll Of earths green garden, where the train Is waiting for you in the rain! Amid the dun, brown, smoke-grimed scene,A news-stands red-bound magazine,Its bright-backed covers in arrayAgainst the somber brown and grayOf wall and roof and smoke and steamAnd throngs that thread the maze ofdream! Gate after gate, and off they sad, the glad, the high, the low;And in they come, and all day longThe dapper trainman sings his song:Relay, Winchester, Hagerstovvn;Mount R()\al Kxpress, one flight
. Book of the Royal blue . divine The train announcers long, mixed roll Of gruff-called places on the scroll Of earths green garden, where the train Is waiting for you in the rain! Amid the dun, brown, smoke-grimed scene,A news-stands red-bound magazine,Its bright-backed covers in arrayAgainst the somber brown and grayOf wall and roof and smoke and steamAnd throngs that thread the maze ofdream! Gate after gate, and off they sad, the glad, the high, the low;And in they come, and all day longThe dapper trainman sings his song:Relay, Winchester, Hagerstovvn;Mount R()\al Kxpress, one flight down! Old landmark of the tide of lifes farewell, of smile or sounded oer and oer againFrom lips of women and of men,^^ith all your smoke, and grime, and thousand memories round you bloom! Ten thousaiKJ shadows miMle all those hosts ot icy and care;Ten thousand tra\elers, whom we seeOnly as shapes of grief and glee,Go in and out the station door—Old Camden Station. Baltimore!. THE BREAKERS AFTER A STORM. The Easter Parade at Atlantic City A |J^ r N II C C I TVrejoices in the receptionof its visitors even, monthin the year, but ne\erdoes it smile a brighterwelcome than during theEaster season. Althoughcrowds are Hocking to the seaside metrop-olis ail during the Lenten period, KasterSunday marks the opening of the springseason, and each year thousands avail them-selves of the opportunity to enjoy the greatboardwalk, the exhilarating bree/.es, thebeautiful expanse of ocean, as well as thesocial life at the numerous hotels and placesof amusement. The ocean loses the steelyhue with which the dull wintry days havecolored its troubled surface, and glows likesome great emerald beneath the bright raysof the early spring sun. The proximity tothe (lulf Stream, coming from the warmwaters of the (Julf of Mexico northerlyalong the Jersey coast, gives Atlantic Citya milder climate than inland cities of thesame latitude. It has been but a litt
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