  By HARRIET MABEL SPALDING. We are looking for summer. Far over the hill, Do you catch the faint sound of her hurrying feet? Does the voice of her coming with melody thrill? Do you strive the first breath of her whispers to greet? She is coming. Bright garlands her pathway surround; Her fair hands are laden with blossoms of snow. Do you hear the soft sweep of her robe o’er the ground, As she speaks to the flowers to awaken and glow? Creep forth the small vines from the hedge and the wall, So shyly they meet the glad gaze of the sun; The brooklets sing low as they clamber and fall, And the brown hills new mantles resplendent have won. The spider a shimmering gossamer weaves In the lap of the meadow, and lightly is thrown Its faint web of gold o’er the green of the leaves, While buds of ambrosia around us are blown. There’s a gem in each drop of the dew on the grass, The earth is awakened with carolings sweet; The daisies are flashing in stars where we pass, And the buttercups hide in the moss at our feet. The cowslips are changing from green into gold, On banks where the frosts of the winter have died; The violets are seeking their hues to unfold, And the red rose has flung its rich canopy wide. There is blue overhead: there is emerald below, A blending of hues in the pearl of the sky; While garlands of azure and blossoms of snow In gardens of beauty and loveliness lie. She is here! she is here! the bonnie, bright June, Like words of rejoicing in moments of grief; Her song you may trace in the woodland’s glad tune, Her tear in the cloud and her smile in the leaf. decorative line Gen. Bolly Lewis, who spends midwinter in Jacksonville, Florida, and spring and fall at the Gibson House, Cincinnati, will have charge of the Hotel AthenÆum at Chautauqua during the summer. He is making every preparation to furnish his guests first-class entertainment. With a hotel and furnishing that cost $125,000, all complete, even to the grounds being graded, sodded, and flowers blooming, he is sure to do it. The hotel will be open June 15, one month before the School of Languages opens. Correspondents should address General Lewis before that date at the Gibson House, Cincinnati, Ohio; after that, at Hotel AthenÆum, Chautauqua, N. Y. decorative line |
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