“Their store-houses full, flowing out of this into that.

“They have called the people happy that hath these things: but happy is that people whose God is

the Lord.”—Ps. cxliii.

I.

With face storm-lined and bronzed, no longer young,

That seemed as if its soul’s dim life had grown

On lonely farm, in rugged inland town

Lying, a narrow world, bleak hills among,

A stranger gazed amid the wealth and glare

Of all the nations’ gathered industry