There's a smile on the fruit, and a smile on the flower,

And a laugh from the brook that runs to the sea.

And look at the broad-faced sun, how he smiles

On the dewy earth that smiles in his ray;

On the leaping waters and gay young isles—

Ay, look, and he'll smile thy gloom away!

William Cullen Bryant.

LADY'S SLIPPER.
(Cypripedium hirsutum.)		COPYRIGHT 1900, BY
A. W. MUMFORD, CHICAGO.