A RUSKIN ANTHOLOGY COMPILED BY WM. SLOANE KENNEDY "I have always thought that more true force of persuasion might be obtained by painfully saying it again in one's own way.” -RUSKIN, Fors Clavigera, Vol. I., p. 281. NEW YORK JOHN W. LOVELL COMPANY 150 WORTH STREET, CORNER MISSION PLACE Of old sang Chaucer of the Flower and Leaf: The mirthful singer of a golden time ; And sweet birds' song throughout his daisied rhyme Rang fearless; for our cities held no grief Dumb in their blackened hearts beneath the grime Of factory and furnace, and the sheaf Was borne in gla:lness ai the harvest-time. So now the Seer would quicken our belief: 66 Life the green leaf," saith he, "and Art the flower, Blow winds of heaven about the hearts of men, Come love, and hope, and helpfulness, as when On fainting vineyard falls the freshening shower: Fear not that life may blossom yet again, A nobler beauty from a purer power!” H. BELLYSE BAILDON, in John Ruskin, Economist. |