Excerpt from The Ideal LifeWhen the eyes of the man, old and tired, close at night, he sees the yellow harvest fields and the pastures where the sheep were feeding on their knees, the gabled roof of the old home, and the shy, brown bird, and her brood, which the boy watched. He hears her tiny piping and the nestlings chirp, and the children laugh out again in the narrow lane. So the old years are woven through our present hours in one seamless...
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Excerpt from The Ideal Life
It is Spring, and the whole world is green, green overhead, where the wind and the tree-tops talk together as it "bloweth where it listeth, " green lower down where the nests hang between floating lights and shadows in the leafy boughs, and unseen winged things twitter and stir in the verdant silence, green under foot where the lush meadow grasses grow thick by every pool and limpid stream. The Spring is abroad, in...
