4. How blest indeed: Their lot who may illegible illegible view form day to day with sight scarce dimmed by carnel sense
These tokens of illegible . While friends all worn with ghastly war be? lost in friendless climes afar March 1st 1864
Emily - The rest of this days ramble closes with our Woodsman adventure which I have not time to write now I have not time
either to write off a copy of what I have already written you Some day when you are not very busy I wish you would draw off
a copy for me. Correcting it at the same time I am to take the cars in about half an hour. I really do not know where I shall
halt I feel like Miltons Adam and Eve. The wild was all before them where to choose their place of rest Write to Midland soon.
I have already bidden all my friends goodbye I feel lonely again illegible Goodbye Emily 16 1. Noon rest; Evening etc
- Unt illegible lled now with eating toil They gather free their flow'g illegible Now wandering lost in verdure rank O'er
broken slope and shelving bank Now wandering heedless on their way Like winding streamlet in the hay 'Till laden quite like
active bees They seek a soothing place of ease Perhaps they find a hillside brook And trace it to the mossy nook Where first
its cooling waters spring And grateful birds delight to sing The sun in strength and glory moves? Glows fiery on the mountains
brow Dark shadows on the prairies fall And hazy radiance over all But sheltered from the blazing sky Their grateful task they
joyful illegible