How shall ye cry out against your own?
Ye have held the light and beauty I have given
For above the muddied ways where they must plod:
Ye have builded this your lord with the lash and with the sword—
Reap what ye have sown!” saith God.
My Sister’s Heritage
By Mary S. Edgar
(In “The Survey.”)
Budding tree and singing bird,
Joy of springtime seen and heard;