Part 10 (1/2)

I ather beasts and birds to tame; But I went 'mid them as the winds that blow them, From childhood's hour, and loved without a name

There is more beauty in a field of weeds Than in all blooarden breeds

For they are nature's children; in their faces I see that sweet obedience to the sky Thatplaces, Who with the season's being live and die; Knowing no love but of the wind and sun, Who still are nature's when their life is done

They are a part of all the haze-filled hours, The happy, happy world all drenched with light, The far-off, chi click-clack of the ht; And they to hts and bri rain-fed streams

W Wilfred Campbell

WORK AND WAGES

There will always be a number of men ould fain set themselves to the accumulation of wealth as the sole object of their lives

Necessarily, that class of men is an uneducated class, inferior in intellect, and, more or less, cowardly It is physically impossible for a well-educated, intellectual, or brave hts; just as it is for him to make his dinner the principal object of them All healthy people like their dinners, but their dinner is not the main object of their lives So all healthily-ht to like it, and to enjoy the sensation of winning it: but thebetter than ood soldier, for instance, lad of his pay--very properly so, and justly grumbles when you keep him ten years without it--still, his main notion of life is to win battles, not to be paid for winning theymen They like pew-rents, and baptismal fees, of course; but yet, if they are brave and well-educated, the pew-rent is not the sole object of their lives, and the baptisyman's object is essentially to baptize and preach, not to be paid for preaching So of doctors They like fees no doubt,--ought to like them; yet if they are brave and well-educated, the entire object of their lives is not fees

They, on the whole, desire to cure the sick; and,--if they are good doctors, and the choice were fairly put to them--would rather cure their patient, and lose their fee, than kill hihtly-trained men; their work is first, their fee second--very important always, but still _second_ But in every nation, as I said, there are a vast class who are ill-educated, cowardly, and more or less stupid And with these people, just as certainly the fee is first, and the work second, as with brave people the work is first, and the fee second And this is no small distinction It is the whole distinction in a man; distinction between life and death _in_ him, between heaven and hell _for_ him You cannot serve two masters:--you _must_ serve one or other If your work is first with you, and your fee second, work is your master, and the lord of work, who is God But, if your fee is first with you, and your work second, fee is your master, and the lord of fee, who is the Devil; and not only the Devil but the lowest of devils--the 'least erected fiend that fell' So there you have it in brief terms; Work first--you are God's servants; Fee first--you are the Fiend's And it makes a difference, now and ever, believe h written, 'King of Kings,' and whose service is perfect freedoh the name is written, 'Slave of Slaves,' and whose service is perfect slavery

Ruskin

UNTRODDEN WAYS

Where close the curving mountains drew To clasp the stream in their embrace, With every outline, curve, and hue, Reflected in its placid face,

The ploughman stopped his team, to watch The train, as swift it thundered by; Soer, wistful eye

His glossy horses h the tranquilfreshness is on him, Just wakened from his bally of mountain strea, delightful autuhman there Must have perpetual holiday!

And he, as all day long he guides His steady plough with patient hand, Thinks of the flying train that glides Into so round Wearies the fraht and sound, With plough and furrows left behind!

Even so to each the untrod ways Of life are touched by fancy's glow, That ever sheds its brightest rays Upon _the page we do not know_!

Agnes Maule Machar

THE FIRST PLOUGHING

Calls the crow from the pine-tree top When the April air is still

He calls to the far his team In the farmyard under the hill