Ever faithfully yours,
(Signed) J. Ruskin.
The song on "Life's Mid-day" is very beautiful, except the third stanza. The river of God will one day sweep down the great city, not feed it.[135]
Sheffield, October 19th, 1879.
FOOTNOTES:
[134] Proverbs xxvi. 3, and x. 13.
[135] The following are the lines specially alluded to:
Shall the strong full-flowing river, bearing on its mighty breast
Half the wealth of some proud nation, precious spoils of East and West,
Shall it mourn its mountain cradle and its infant heathery bed,
All its youthful songs and dances, as adown the hills it sped,
When by it in yon great city half a million mouths are fed?
[Y. M. A. Magazine, October, 1879.]