. Mary Baldwin Seminary Bluestocking 1903 . The Presence Invisible. Once beneath the stars I \vandered In a pensive mood, alone,And my thoughts, while there I pondered, Mingled with the oceans moan. Silver sands that stretched before me,And the golden moon above, The light zephyrs playing oer me,Overwhelmed my soul with love. Love for Him who caused my being,\A^hom I trusted as my guide. Whom I felt, without eer be ever at my side. As He soothes yon waters motion. So He quiets me at in midst of lifes commotion, He commands my soul, Be still! Blanche Adair. Betsy Bell and He


. Mary Baldwin Seminary Bluestocking 1903 . The Presence Invisible. Once beneath the stars I \vandered In a pensive mood, alone,And my thoughts, while there I pondered, Mingled with the oceans moan. Silver sands that stretched before me,And the golden moon above, The light zephyrs playing oer me,Overwhelmed my soul with love. Love for Him who caused my being,\A^hom I trusted as my guide. Whom I felt, without eer be ever at my side. As He soothes yon waters motion. So He quiets me at in midst of lifes commotion, He commands my soul, Be still! Blanche Adair. Betsy Bell and Her ETSY BELL and her surroundings when viewedin the time when the melancholy days havecome and all Nature mourns for beauty that isno more, is not a scene which gladdens theheart. There is a glimpse of many houses closeat hand, and the winding of several desertedstreets. In the distance we see the tops ofmany large, dreary buildings, whose windowsare iron-barred, and whose air of desolationmakes us quickly turn from the sight. Closeby, the eye rests on a mass of grey and white,and now a multitude of mounds appear ; it needs not the weather-beatenslabs at the head to tell of the quiet sleepers, who were at one time in-mates of the iron-barred structure near by. AVe look away to the fields near Betsy Bell, and finally to where themountain itself looms up bleak, bare, cloud-capped against the its base is sere brown grass, and its sides devoid of verdure, arebut one mass of rock. Here and there are large areas covered withtrees ; some to which the withered leaves of autumn still c


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