Soon in long rivers down the lifted face,
And leave the vision clear for stars and sun.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
CHEERFULNESS TAUGHT BY REASON.
I think we are too ready with complaint
In this fair world of God's. Had we no hope
Indeed beyond the zenith and the slope
Of yon gray bank of sky, we might be faint
To muse upon eternity's constraint
Round our aspirant souls. But since the scope