Excerpt from Cypress Leaves: In Memoriam, And Other Poems

One beautiful morning in August, 1885, feeling nervous and exhausted by the long and constant strain of professional duties, I had resolved to take my wife and little May for a day's recreation to the waters of Lake Minnetonka. The day proved to be one of the most lovely of Minnesota's many lovely days. Perhaps our mental exhilaration and contentment had much to do with making the weather appear exceptionally fair, for foul weather may seem fair to a happy and contented heart, and a day spent in recreation is a day well spent, no matter what day of the week or at what sacrifice. It would be superfluous to add that the air was balmy and the skies were blue - as if they could be anything else in a land of almost perpetual sunshine! Can the beauteous Columbia boast of a fairer offspring than the State which we inhabit? Do the skirts of the Goddess of Liberty trail over fairer landscapes than are too be found in Minnesota?

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