And out from the bloom and the sunshine,
From the rainbow o’er-arching the sky,
From the night and the gloom and the tempest,
Echo will answer you, “Why?”
—Copyright by Harr Wagner Co., San Francisco, and used by kind permission of author and publisher.
PICTURES OF MEMORY
By Alice Cary
Among the beautiful pictures
That hang on memory’s wall
Is one of a dim old forest,