. The Granite monthly : a magazine of literature, history and state progress . an of Theodor Storm.]By Laura Garland Carr. All is so still! The broad heath lies Beneath the suns warm, noonday brightness ;A rosy shimmer flits and flies About the old gravestones in wild flowers bloom and all the airIs sweet with heather growing there. Bright gleams of gold the watcher tells Where beetles through the grass are wending The bees hang lowT on heather bells— The purple sprays beneath them bending. We hear a sudden whir of wings— A lark mounts skyward as it sings. A lonely house—time-bat
. The Granite monthly : a magazine of literature, history and state progress . an of Theodor Storm.]By Laura Garland Carr. All is so still! The broad heath lies Beneath the suns warm, noonday brightness ;A rosy shimmer flits and flies About the old gravestones in wild flowers bloom and all the airIs sweet with heather growing there. Bright gleams of gold the watcher tells Where beetles through the grass are wending The bees hang lowT on heather bells— The purple sprays beneath them bending. We hear a sudden whir of wings— A lark mounts skyward as it sings. A lonely house—time-battered, poor—Basks in the pleasant, sunny weather; The cotter, smiling, from his door Watches the bees their burdens gather. His bo3r, sitting among the weeds, Makes himself whistles from the reeds. The village bells clear, distant callBrings to this quiet scene a tremor ; The old mans eyelids gently fall And honey harvests cheer the dreamer. Nought of the worlds rush, joy, distress— Touches or breaks this loneliness. &£ f - -Lr- - *. FRAN W. GRAVES, M. D. Dr. Frank W. Graves, born in Rumney, June 26, 1S42, died at ,March 12, 1900. Dr. Graves was a son of YYillard and Elizabeth (Walker) Graves, and a grand-son of Abner Graves, a soldiei in the War of 1812. He received his early edu-cation in the common schools of New Hampshire, at the Phillips school inBoston, Nashua Literary institution, and at the Barre academy, Barre, Vt. Hecommenced his professional education in 1863 under the direction of the lateDr. Charles P. Gage of this city, attended medical lectures at the medical depart-ment of Harvard, the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York, at theUniversity of Vermont, and was graduated M. D. from the medical department ofthe University of Vermont in 1866. He located for the practice of medicine firstin Sutton, where he remained only a few months, removing to Warner, where heremained for eleven years. He then went to Woburn where he continued do
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