The poetical works of Edwin Oscar Gale . d calm ! The sighing pineIts healing balsam yields, while these white cedar treesTheir spicy oil distill with healing most divineAnd tempting proffer us in health bestowing breeze. Mark you those well kept kine, close standing in the flood ?A study of contentment they. No care or thought!Each grinds in sated mood the all important cudAnd finds that peace which man for centuries has few are their—how few are his essential do we not forego the prize beyond our reach,Our proud ambition curb, strict discipline our greedsAnd profit by th
The poetical works of Edwin Oscar Gale . d calm ! The sighing pineIts healing balsam yields, while these white cedar treesTheir spicy oil distill with healing most divineAnd tempting proffer us in health bestowing breeze. Mark you those well kept kine, close standing in the flood ?A study of contentment they. No care or thought!Each grinds in sated mood the all important cudAnd finds that peace which man for centuries has few are their—how few are his essential do we not forego the prize beyond our reach,Our proud ambition curb, strict discipline our greedsAnd profit by the lessons, wise, Gods creatures teach ? Dear Mother Nature, thou art more than kind to holdst in goodly store for his delight and useUnnumbered blessings, which without a price he canUnto himself appropriate, and would induceBy all these tempting beauties thou dost lavish soThat he should come unto these sylvan feasts of thou specifics sure for many ills bestow,And deeply drink these draughts of unintoxant wine. 64. T3 e O C 5 Proud Elkhart Lake. With scarce an equal in the land,I greet thee with the same old tribute of my praiseAs when I first beheld thee in thy wood wreathed fadeless charms, outliving mans transition days,To races yet unborn will benedictions same exultant praise will they in turn bestowThat tribes unknown by us in raptures sang to thee;And when, forgotten, they shall sleep, thy waves will flow. Elkhart Lake, July 20, 1894. 65 y Poems of Sentiment SPEAK WELL OF YOUR NEIGHBOR. Speak well of your neighbor, be just and be true In what you may say, in whatever you do. Be loath to repeat an unbrotherly word, Make sure of the truth of what you have heard. A pure, sparkling spring, on its way to the sea, By the sewage of cities polluted will be; A simple remark, that each gossip retells. To a scandalous river surprisingly swells. Speak well of your neighbor, wherever you canFind something for praising in each fellow all h
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