. Fairy roads to Science-Town . SL.^:^ Pfc -^^% CHAPTER IX THE LITTLE KING AND THEBUTTERFLY PREACHER. He owns the bird songs of the hills,The laughter of the April rills;And his are all the diamonds setIn Mornings dewy coronet,And his the Dusks first minted starsThat twinkle through the pasture barsAnd litter all the skies at nightWith glittering scraps of silver light;The rainbow s bar, from rim to rim,In beaten gold^ belongs to him. James Whitcomb Riley. [131] THE LITTLE KING AND THEBUTTERFLY PREACHER ROGER was King in the Land of Run-ning Brooks. There were scores ofpeople who thought they
. Fairy roads to Science-Town . SL.^:^ Pfc -^^% CHAPTER IX THE LITTLE KING AND THEBUTTERFLY PREACHER. He owns the bird songs of the hills,The laughter of the April rills;And his are all the diamonds setIn Mornings dewy coronet,And his the Dusks first minted starsThat twinkle through the pasture barsAnd litter all the skies at nightWith glittering scraps of silver light;The rainbow s bar, from rim to rim,In beaten gold^ belongs to him. James Whitcomb Riley. [131] THE LITTLE KING AND THEBUTTERFLY PREACHER ROGER was King in the Land of Run-ning Brooks. There were scores ofpeople who thought they owned the beautifulcountry, for they ploughed its fields, and brokeits rocks, and cut down its trees. But no manowns anything that he does not take time tolook at and love, and take into his heart. These busy workers only planned how theymight make the brooks turn more mill wheels;they never stopped to hear the water sing andto see it sparkle. They thought the treeswould make good lumber, but they never lis-tened to their whisperings. So they did notown them at all. But Roger the King grew richer
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