CHAPTER XXXI.

SEA-SIDE EXCURSIONS FOR MOTHERS AND CHILDREN.

Sure he, to whom, of mind or hand belongs

Some craft that doth uplift the thought of men

Above the mold, and bring to human ken

The joys of radiance, air and clear bird-songs;

So that the brow, o'er moist with sullen toil,

May catch a breeze from far-off Paradise;

So that the soul may, for a moment, rise

Up from the stoop and cramp of daily moil—