Should never more grow gray!
That line of rose no more be drawn
Above the ocean’s spray! (Text.)
—Madison Cawein, Ainslee’s Magazine.
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DEPTH OF RESOURCES
Some splendid pines were found, after a heavy gale, lying prostrate, tho they were strong trees in their full prime. To a questioner an old woodman said: “They got their water far too near the surface. If they had had to strike their roots deeper for moisture no winds could ever have uprooted them.”
Many folks are easily upset because all life has been too easy with them. Their roots have never struck deep because there was no great compulsion to make them go deeper for the sources of life. Our very wants, if we do not succumb to them, but go deeper until we find the heart’s need, may become the means of our strength. (Text.)
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DEPTH, THE SECOND