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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Some Broken Twigs, by Clara M. Beede
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+Title: Some Broken Twigs
+
+Author: Clara M. Beede
+
+Release Date: February 28, 2005 [EBook #15211]
+
+Language: English
+
+Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
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+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SOME BROKEN TWIGS ***
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+
+_Some Broken Twigs_
+
+
+_BY_
+CLARA M. BEEDE
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+The Press of Flozari, Pegasus Studios
+Box 5804, Cleveland, 1, Ohio
+1946
+
+
+     _Dedicated to my granddaughter
+      BETTY TODD BRISTOW
+      the new mother_
+
+
+
+ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
+
+We are grateful for permission to include certain poems that were
+first published in Caravan of Verse, Cass County Democrat, 1943
+Chipmunk, From, Lyricists Reflections, 1940 Song Poems, The New Earth,
+Tulsa Tribune, and 1941 Visions.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+OTHER TORCHBEARER CHAPBOOKS
+
+by
+
+CLARA M. BEEDE
+
+  45: Brown Plumes
+  51: More Brown Plumes
+  63: Sunshine and Rain
+  73: Clear Crystals (Second Printing)
+  88: Only Pebbles
+  94: Golden Leaves
+  98: Sail High Above
+
+
+
+
+FOREWORD
+
+
+In the four seasons of the year there are many beautiful days as well
+as dismal days in life. The broken twigs and trails, as well as the
+good ones go to make up this world. All mark and show posterity the
+way out of the woods.
+
+These poems, and many other poems written by Mrs. Beede show these
+things and the wonders of nature.
+
+As only a true mother can, she has shown me these wonders. I sincerely
+hope that all who read her poems will appreciate them as I do and reap
+the benefit of the morals of her thoughtful and enjoyable poems and
+know as I do her love of nature and things beautiful.
+
+Genevieve Beede Henderson
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+TO NEW YORK
+
+
+  For maid and lad New York is fairy land,
+  Delightful charms in gorgeous brilliant lure!
+  Our youth do struggle on ambition's tour.
+  They meet life's challenge with true heart and hand.
+  Forgotten trails are marked with scar and wand;
+  A blasted rock and broken twigs assure
+  The traveler that others fought the moor,
+  And sailed the stormy breakers, crossed the sand
+  To build the city on a granite slab.
+  They tamed the wilderness, a sturdy clan!
+  Retracing paths recall the glory made,
+  Lays bare the secrets of the field and lab.
+  Such tours give hope for future life and plan.
+  Brave men have set the torch with ax and spade.
+
+
+
+
+MEET THE CHALLENGE
+
+
+  The coddled youth, like greenhouse plant
+  Will wilt and die in desert sand,
+  Can never meet the storms of life,
+  Untried and mild and soft his hands.
+
+  He walks within the favored nooks,
+  Protected there much more than those,
+  Who meet the challenge face ahead,
+  And struggle on to conquer foes.
+
+  They learn to take the gaff and thrust,
+  And from an inner courage gain
+  A faith in toil and love of truth;
+  They pray to God to ease the pain.
+
+
+
+
+WINTER
+
+
+  A glow of life shines from the leaf-stripped limbs,
+  In sheltered nooks snowbirds are singing hymns.
+  The sycamore shafts gleam and shine afar,
+  Down by the river where the black oaks are.
+  The goldenrod now droops his fuzzy head;
+  There by my fence, leaves make a fluffy bed.
+  They mulch my flower seed down in the loam;
+  Beyond below the tall sedge grasses moan.
+  Seared grass curls firmly over tender sprigs,
+  And my rose bush there curves its brown thorned twigs.
+  Beneath my window, tulip bulbs lay snug,
+  Quite safe and warm in earthy winter rug.
+  All nature resting for a springtime gain,
+  And quiet gray tones soothe an inner pain.
+
+
+
+
+DREAMING BY THE RIVER
+
+
+  Ripples on the water
+  Rustling in the trees
+  Wind sighing gently
+  Whistling by with ease.
+  Cow-bells tinkling distant
+  Farmer on the lea,
+  Cattle nibbling grasses
+  Little honey bee.
+  Frosted leaves of autumn
+  Sailing down the stream.
+  Neatest clump of willows,
+  Oh, for some ice cream.
+
+
+
+
+WHEN YOU COME HOME
+
+
+  O happy, happy heart, that can but leap
+  For joy, when you return to me again;
+  The love within grows fresh as morning glen,
+  Awakes and lights the gloom where shadows creep.
+  --The night will come and with it women weep.
+  Stay, Dear, with me, for dark will come and then,
+  It fills the soul with fear--don't go again--
+  Black clouds will roll, when only children sleep.
+  O Darling storms of midnight vex and threat;
+  The gullies moan and then the goblins see!
+  It is not wise or brave to prattle so;
+  And Dear, if you must go, I will not fret;
+  The sun will shine when you come home to me,
+  Dark night is day and only mild winds blow.
+
+
+
+
+CHILDREN AT THE PARK
+
+
+  We hop and skip in time
+  In the shade of the sycamore trees,
+  Fly around like the birds and the bees.
+
+  We swing and sway and climb
+  To the top of the strong monkey bars,
+  Watch the boats and the Riverside cars.
+
+  We swim and shout in glee,
+  While the ships on the river sail on.
+  How time flies and the morning is gone.
+
+  We leap and prance about
+  And we sing by the Riverside drive.
+  Thus we play and we eat and we thrive.
+
+
+
+
+THE FLEET (1945)
+
+
+  A long line of ships,
+  War-scarred in glory smothered
+  On navy's glad day.
+
+
+
+
+SPRING IS BUDDING
+
+
+  Why is the sun ashining
+  And all the faces glad?
+  Why are the buds abursting
+  And not, a thing is sad?
+        I hear the sparrow twittering
+        Her sweet old melody.
+        Darling the spring is budding
+        In all her ecstasy.
+  Spring and the sun are smiling
+  To bring the leaves and cress.
+  Love in the heart is waking
+  To give us happiness.
+        I hear the lark awarbling
+        Her sweet old melody.
+        And too my heart is singing
+        In happy ecstasy.
+
+
+
+
+BEAUTIFUL ROSE
+
+
+  Beautiful rose
+  Your crimson velvet tells me
+  The loveliest message.
+
+
+
+
+SUN ON THE RIVER
+
+
+  O river, flowing on,
+  In flashing sunlight roll,
+  And join the ocean lawn
+  Up to the island shoal.
+
+  O great and mighty stream,
+  With flaming breast and bow,
+  Your ferries glide and gleam
+  Through sparkling glare and glow.
+
+  O sun, on rolling wave
+  Shine far out to the sea,
+  And rounded billows pave,
+  Like quickened silver flee.
+
+  O sheets of dazzling light,
+  Move on close to the edge,
+  Where ships are anchored right,
+  And gold flames on the ledge.
+
+  O rivers, drifting fire
+  With steamers flaming wide,
+  Play on your silent lyre
+  Until the shadows hide.
+
+
+
+
+OUT ON THE BAY
+
+
+  Out on the bay
+  Was spread a silver while sheet,
+  Glazed and painted by the sun,
+  Today.
+
+  Down in my heart
+  Was pain and sorrow's dark sleet
+  Eased and melted by the sun,
+  In part.
+
+
+
+
+RESTING
+
+
+  There is no soothing so complete,
+    As sitting in the sun,
+  Or chasing butterflies through wheat,
+    Although no cloth is spun.
+
+
+
+
+A SHOWER'S MELODY
+
+
+  A babbling brooklet wends its happy way
+  Adown a rocky path across the plain.
+  And goes a-galloping along in rain.
+  In drought he stops and waits a lucky day,
+  When clouds roll up and men and women pray,
+  And withered is the corn and grasses and grain.
+  The dust clings thick on every sill and pane.
+  A shower soon refreshes loam and clay.
+  The little stream resumes its cheerful hymn.
+  It warbles on content to sing and flow,
+  The music lilts and swells in happy glee;
+  And too, the birds and bees join in with vim,
+  Harmonious, alive, in twilight glow
+  A mighty choir of gorgeous melody!
+
+
+
+
+IF YOU HEAR
+
+
+  If you hear the scoff of friends,
+  Or see their anger grow,
+  Just please remember this,
+  Perhaps they do not know.
+
+
+
+
+DANCING ON A LEVEL ROAD
+
+
+  It is a happy thing to dance
+    A long a level road
+  So brave a deed to take a chance
+    Of slipping off the load.
+
+
+
+
+IT WAS HOME
+
+
+  A little old house in a sheltered nook,
+  Some cottonwood trees near a babbling brook,
+  A sturdy gnarled oak by a grassy lane
+  That leads to green pastures past flowing grain.
+  A trellised rose bush hides a crumbling wall,
+  Where lovers have stood near the waterfall;
+  Beyond the sun sets in a golden glow
+  And shadows stretch far to the mead below.
+  A shining wire fence follows up the hill
+  And curves about to the graded fill.
+  Then back to the house in a cozy spot
+  We loiter there on the hallowed lot,
+  Where Mother's sweet face waits, in gentle calm,
+  And Father sits near and roads an old psalm.
+
+
+
+
+QUESTIONS
+
+
+  If I could brush the cobwebs from my eyes,
+      What could I see?
+  If I could roll the boulder from my path,
+      What would I be?
+
+
+
+
+DISTRUST
+
+
+  He walks the safest way;
+  There must be no thistles on his path.
+  He knows all men are clay.
+  If truth wears feathers in her cap,
+  They must be plucked away,
+  That all may proven be.
+
+
+
+
+COUNTING
+
+
+  The morning sun casts purple in the fields,
+  A mocking bird sings gaily in the oaks,
+  White fluffy clouds rest in the murky sky.
+  It is yet cool, the maples scarcely stir,
+  But noon will burn the grasses by the way
+  And give the girl there at the soda fount
+  A welcome trade. The heat will parch the earth,
+  So that flowers will wilt and droop their charm.
+  But night will come and bring refreshing breeze
+  And fold a soothing mantle over all
+  Like mother spreading blankets over Tom.
+  Now day by day the summer slips on by,
+  Its stifling heat and gloomy skies will pass.
+  And winter cold will come with hoary frost;
+  Yet by our hearths we rest in quiet peace,
+  Secure our roofs and snug our sheltered beds.
+  Remember Spring, how roses bloom and flamed!
+  And how the sunny days kept pace with time.
+  In winter some hours will be gilded gold.
+  It's true our blessings add up more than half.
+
+
+
+
+ON THE FERRY
+
+
+  A multitude of lights twinkled in glee;
+  Receding ones reached out, their friendship gleamed
+  With hands across to shield from dark, it seemed;
+  And coming dock was lit from home to sea.
+  There was no gloam and dusk for you and me.
+  The stars above, grand sentinels all reamed,
+  Conducting us home like naught ever dreamed;
+  The scalloped bridge festooned like a Christmas tree,
+  And gate post lamps led strangers through the park.
+  Our fathers planned that all should walk in light,
+  That every man could find his way like day,
+  Until the amber dawning wake the lark.
+  Thus peacefully we glided through the night,
+  Serenely going home the ferry way.
+
+
+
+
+PERHAPS
+
+
+  I see a gorgeous city, pompous, grand,
+  And hear it weeping with pain long borne.
+  It is built on rock and nobly planned,
+  The glory shine like bloom with leaf and thorn.
+
+  I feel its memories in brick and stone,
+  And lift my eyes to see the sky and stars.
+  Unpainted rock in weathered greys and blown
+  With winds and well I understand the bars.
+
+  From walk to turret there are many eyes,
+  Perhaps some measuring these thoughts of mine,
+  What color hair? How long the coat and thighs?
+  It may be true we drink the self-same wine.
+
+
+
+
+OKLAHOMA
+
+
+  Hail Oklahoma land! O prairie plain,
+  There is no state more dearly loved.--All hail!
+  Where grassy hills and sheltered cove and vale
+  Rest quietly in peace--and in refrain
+  Our voices lift in praise and joy again;
+  We sing of Oklahoma land.--All hail!
+  Of sunny skies and even windy gale,
+  And wealth of growing corn and flowing grain;
+  Where black gold gleams and roses bloom in spring.
+  Here long roads stretch and grazing cow-herds roam.
+  We build in faith great churches and our state
+  With many schools, where children gaily sing.
+  We love our loamy fields and prairie home
+  And struggle onward upward, soon and late.
+
+  Hail Oklahoma land! O grassy plain,
+  There is no state more dearly loved.--All hail!
+
+
+
+
+OUR MORNING PRAYER
+
+
+  Our Father in heaven,
+  Drive from the soul the hopelessness,
+  Fill it with charity and faith,
+  And fire the heart with kindliness,
+  For Jesus sake, amen.
+
+
+
+
+WE THANK OUR GOD
+
+
+  We thank our God for this glad Christmas day,
+  For health and freedom, peace and hope today.
+  We float our flag on every hill and trail;
+  All Hail! The red and white and blue, all hail!
+  Again upon the board a feast is spread,
+  And God now guards and blesses our good bread.
+  Our turkey's big and fat and pudding brown,
+  And we will smile all day and wear no frown.
+  Once more our bins are filled with corn and wheat,
+  The bread we break is good, so light and sweet,
+  Cranberries, pumpkin pies and walnut meats.
+  We bow to thank our God for these good eats.
+  This land America! To God give thanks.
+  Our men are strong and brave in all the ranks.
+  All Hail America! Our hope and pride.
+  God bless our home and now with us abide.
+
+
+
+
+WAITING
+
+
+  The waiting minutes
+  Tick on but never ending
+  To eternity.
+  The years do not wait.
+  So stealthily do they move,
+  Like deep swift water.
+
+
+
+
+THAT HAPPY COMPANIONSHIP
+
+
+  Remembering friends of the not long ago,
+  Their laughter a gay bubbling song.
+  The whispering of secrets, the rapture of show.
+  The mounting of spirits lit the peak aglow
+  And lifted the heart up along
+
+  The forgetting of wrong in a moment of joy,
+  Quite erased the hurt and the scar,
+  With music of kindness and naught to annoy,
+  And gold of the friendship refusing alloy.
+  Thus comrades in their happiness are.
+
+
+
+
+I WATCHED MY FLOWERS
+
+
+  I watched my flowers grow and brighten barren places;
+  They smiled at me the whole day long with brilliant faces
+  The blues and reds, the white and yellow in morning dews
+  Drove out the hurt of bitter grief and other bruise,
+  But now the drought will blight the tender buds and leaves.
+  And parch the earth as the winds blow on scorching sprees,
+  'Til July's heat and August sun are duly past,
+  Yet many things are fine and good at weary last
+  For if the rain should come, good seed would surely die.
+  In truth, I should be thankful for a cloudless sky
+  To ripen seed that sprout and grow in barren places.
+  And wink at me next year with bright and smiling faces
+
+
+
+
+BEES OF HATRED
+
+
+  The bees of hatred hover
+  Above and around us.
+  A good crop will be hatched
+  To torment and sting us.
+
+
+
+
+THIS AFTERNOON
+
+
+  This afternoon, an angry heart and crude
+  Consoled himself with an unkindly deed.
+  Within his soul was hate like garden weed,
+  That choked the buds and bulbs. In childish feud,
+  His glee, like noisy urchins brash and rude,
+  Who trample flowers, pay no thoughtful heed.
+  The careless acts bring harm and pain with speed.
+  And sin-scarred hearts deceive themselves, delude
+  No one. Such souls will have few friends at last.
+  When life is hard, no one will bear his care
+  Unless a kindly one, who looks about
+  To help, to pull and clear. The field is vast!
+  O weary man! Unhappy world! "Unfair
+  Is life" men say, "The whole is full of doubt."
+
+
+
+
+SHE RETURNED IT
+
+
+  She borrowed a lump of sugar
+    To sweeten a cup of tea.
+  I felt so very silly
+    When she brought it back to me.
+
+
+
+
+TO MY FRIENDS
+
+
+  On Christmas day, let happy dreams
+  Sparkle and flow like bubbling streams.
+
+
+
+
+A MAIDEN'S DREAM
+
+
+  I often think and dream and ponder
+    Of things that I have seen,
+  And twist the real into a wonder
+    When men and birds convene.
+
+  If I could reach that star up yonder,
+    My soul would lift and preen;
+  If Summertime would always stay
+    My yard would be more green.
+
+  I see the airplane rise and soaring
+    On all bright days and fair;
+  The tiny specks go roaring out
+    Across the hills from care.
+
+  If my good pilot friend is landing
+    On some star world up there.
+  He might bring back some silver
+    Or flowers for my hair.
+
+
+
+
+PROMISES
+
+
+  On New Year's day
+    Mankind makes promises
+  Of gossamer film.
+
+
+
+
+IN BOASTFUL PRIDE
+
+
+  He walked quite proudly on the rocky ledge
+  And shouted, "I am standing here so high!
+  How fine the valley and the flowing rye,
+  I see the barn that's near the osage hedge;
+  Come look--it's splendid from this shaly edge!"
+  He leaned far out and slipped--the foolish guy.
+  Where he had stood was only murky sky.
+  To face great danger is a privilege.
+  Don't dare for show, my boy, the rock might slide.
+  For worthy cause the brave will stand or fall,
+  But watch the stepping where the bluff is steep;
+  Remember too when flushed with boastful pride,
+  Men take most careless risks--don't reckon all;
+  And then--a life goes out in just one leap.
+
+
+
+
+IN THE STORM
+
+
+  Hear the gale roaring through woods!
+      Trees bend and snap and sway,
+      They race and break on this dark day.
+  If I could fashion some sturdy hoods
+      To hold the storm at bay,
+      Then trim and straight would all trees stay.
+  But great trees knotted by winds' moods
+      --Like men who face their care--
+  Stand scarred yet staunch and bravely there.
+
+
+
+THE PRESS OF FLOZARI
+
+COLOPHON
+
+This is number 107 of the Torchbearers' Chapbooks, printed by hand at
+the Pegasus Studio, from hand-set 10 point Century on Eggshell paper,
+in an edition of 110 copies and the type distributed.
+
+  Copies may be secured from the author, at 75¢ each, postpaid
+  Clara M. Beede, 146-1/2 North College, Tulsa 4, Okla.
+
+
+
+
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+
+<div class="center" >
+<a name="Some_Broken_Twigs" id="Some_Broken_Twigs" />
+<img src="images/cover.jpg" width="253" height="500" alt="Some Broken Twigs chapbook cover" />
+</div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h1><i>Some Broken Twigs</i></h1>
+<h3><i>BY</i></h3>
+<h2>CLARA M. BEEDE</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/001.jpg" width="354" height="300" alt="Black and white drawing" />
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+The Press of Flozari, Pegasus Studios<br />
+Box 5804, Cleveland, 1, Ohio<br />
+1946
+</div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class="center">
+<i>Dedicated to my granddaughter</i><br />
+<i>BETTY TODD BRISTOW</i><br />
+<i>the new mother</i><br />
+</div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<h2>ACKNOWLEDGMENTS</h2>
+
+<p>We are grateful for permission to include certain poems that were
+first published in Caravan of Verse, Cass County Democrat, 1943
+Chipmunk, From, Lyricists Reflections, 1940 Song Poems, The New Earth,
+Tulsa Tribune, and 1941 Visions.</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+
+<h3>OTHER TORCHBEARER CHAPBOOKS</h3>
+<h3>by</h3>
+<h3>CLARA M. BEEDE</h3>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">45: Brown Plumes</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">51: More Brown Plumes</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">63: Sunshine and Rain</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">73: Clear Crystals (Second Printing)</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">88: Only Pebbles</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">94: Golden Leaves</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">98: Sail High Above</span><br />
+</p>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2>CONTENTS</h2>
+<ul><li> <a href="#FOREWORD"><b>FOREWORD</b></a></li>
+<li> <a href="#TO_NEW_YORK"><b>TO NEW YORK</b></a></li>
+<li> <a href="#MEET_THE_CHALLENGE"><b>MEET THE CHALLENGE</b></a></li>
+<li> <a href="#WINTER"><b>WINTER</b></a></li>
+<li> <a href="#DREAMING_BY_THE_RIVER"><b>DREAMING BY THE RIVER</b></a></li>
+<li> <a href="#WHEN_YOU_COME_HOME"><b>WHEN YOU COME HOME</b></a></li>
+<li> <a href="#CHILDREN_AT_THE_PARK"><b>CHILDREN AT THE PARK</b></a></li>
+<li> <a href="#THE_FLEET_1945"><b>THE FLEET (1945)</b></a></li>
+<li> <a href="#SPRING_IS_BUDDING"><b>SPRING IS BUDDING</b></a></li>
+<li> <a href="#BEAUTIFUL_ROSE"><b>BEAUTIFUL ROSE</b></a></li>
+<li> <a href="#SUN_ON_THE_RIVER"><b>SUN ON THE RIVER</b></a></li>
+<li> <a href="#OUT_ON_THE_BAY"><b>OUT ON THE BAY</b></a></li>
+<li> <a href="#RESTING"><b>RESTING</b></a></li>
+<li> <a href="#A_SHOWERS_MELODY"><b>A SHOWER'S MELODY</b></a></li>
+<li> <a href="#IF_YOU_HEAR"><b>IF YOU HEAR</b></a></li>
+<li> <a href="#DANCING_ON_A_LEVEL_ROAD"><b>DANCING ON A LEVEL ROAD</b></a></li>
+<li> <a href="#IT_WAS_HOME"><b>IT WAS HOME</b></a></li>
+<li> <a href="#QUESTIONS"><b>QUESTIONS</b></a></li>
+<li> <a href="#DISTRUST"><b>DISTRUST</b></a></li>
+<li> <a href="#COUNTING"><b>COUNTING</b></a></li>
+<li> <a href="#ON_THE_FERRY"><b>ON THE FERRY</b></a></li>
+<li> <a href="#PERHAPS"><b>PERHAPS</b></a></li>
+<li> <a href="#OKLAHOMA"><b>OKLAHOMA</b></a></li>
+<li> <a href="#OUR_MORNING_PRAYER"><b>OUR MORNING PRAYER</b></a></li>
+<li> <a href="#WE_THANK_OUR_GOD"><b>WE THANK OUR GOD</b></a></li>
+<li> <a href="#WAITING"><b>WAITING</b></a></li>
+<li> <a href="#THAT_HAPPY_COMPANIONSHIP"><b>THAT HAPPY COMPANIONSHIP</b></a></li>
+<li> <a href="#I_WATCHED_MY_FLOWERS"><b>I WATCHED MY FLOWERS</b></a></li>
+<li> <a href="#BEES_OF_HATRED"><b>BEES OF HATRED</b></a></li>
+<li> <a href="#THIS_AFTERNOON"><b>THIS AFTERNOON</b></a></li>
+<li> <a href="#SHE_RETURNED_IT"><b>SHE RETURNED IT</b></a></li>
+<li> <a href="#TO_MY_FRIENDS"><b>TO MY FRIENDS</b></a></li>
+<li> <a href="#A_MAIDENS_DREAM"><b>A MAIDEN'S DREAM</b></a></li>
+<li> <a href="#PROMISES"><b>PROMISES</b></a></li>
+<li> <a href="#IN_BOASTFUL_PRIDE"><b>IN BOASTFUL PRIDE</b></a></li>
+<li> <a href="#IN_THE_STORM"><b>IN THE STORM</b></a></li></ul>
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="FOREWORD" id="FOREWORD" />FOREWORD</h2>
+
+
+<p>In the four seasons of the year there are many beautiful days as well
+as dismal days in life. The broken twigs and trails, as well as the
+good ones go to make up this world. All mark and show posterity the
+way out of the woods.</p>
+
+<p>These poems, and many other poems written by Mrs. Beede show these
+things and the wonders of nature.</p>
+
+<p>As only a true mother can, she has shown me these wonders. I sincerely
+hope that all who read her poems will appreciate them as I do and reap
+the benefit of the morals of her thoughtful and enjoyable poems and
+know as I do her love of nature and things beautiful.</p>
+
+<p>Genevieve Beede Henderson</p>
+
+<div class="center" >
+<img src="images/005.jpg" width="281" height="300" alt="Black and white drawing"  />
+</div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<div class="center" >
+<img src="images/006.jpg" width="266" height="400" alt="Black and white drawing"  />
+</div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="TO_NEW_YORK" id="TO_NEW_YORK" />TO NEW YORK</h2>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span>For maid and lad New York is fairy land,<br /></span>
+<span>Delightful charms in gorgeous brilliant lure!<br /></span>
+<span>Our youth do struggle on ambition's tour.<br /></span>
+<span>They meet life's challenge with true heart and hand.<br /></span>
+<span>Forgotten trails are marked with scar and wand;<br /></span>
+<span>A blasted rock and broken twigs assure<br /></span>
+<span>The traveler that others fought the moor,<br /></span>
+<span>And sailed the stormy breakers, crossed the sand<br /></span>
+<span>To build the city on a granite slab.<br /></span>
+<span>They tamed the wilderness, a sturdy clan!<br /></span>
+<span>Retracing paths recall the glory made,<br /></span>
+<span>Lays bare the secrets of the field and lab.<br /></span>
+<span>Such tours give hope for future life and plan.<br /></span>
+<span>Brave men have set the torch with ax and spade.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="MEET_THE_CHALLENGE" id="MEET_THE_CHALLENGE" />MEET THE CHALLENGE</h2>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span>The coddled youth, like greenhouse plant<br /></span>
+<span>Will wilt and die in desert sand,<br /></span>
+<span>Can never meet the storms of life,<br /></span>
+<span>Untried and mild and soft his hands.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span>He walks within the favored nooks,<br /></span>
+<span>Protected there much more than those,<br /></span>
+<span>Who meet the challenge face ahead,<br /></span>
+<span>And struggle on to conquer foes.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span>They learn to take the gaff and thrust,<br /></span>
+<span>And from an inner courage gain<br /></span>
+<span>A faith in toil and love of truth;<br /></span>
+<span>They pray to God to ease the pain.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="WINTER" id="WINTER" />WINTER</h2>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span>A glow of life shines from the leaf-stripped limbs,<br /></span>
+<span>In sheltered nooks snowbirds are singing hymns.<br /></span>
+<span>The sycamore shafts gleam and shine afar,<br /></span>
+<span>Down by the river where the black oaks are.<br /></span>
+<span>The goldenrod now droops his fuzzy head;<br /></span>
+<span>There by my fence, leaves make a fluffy bed.<br /></span>
+<span>They mulch my flower seed down in the loam;<br /></span>
+<span>Beyond below the tall sedge grasses moan.<br /></span>
+<span>Seared grass curls firmly over tender sprigs,<br /></span>
+<span>And my rose bush there curves its brown thorned twigs.<br /></span>
+<span>Beneath my window, tulip bulbs lay snug,<br /></span>
+<span>Quite safe and warm in earthy winter rug.<br /></span>
+<span>All nature resting for a springtime gain,<br /></span>
+<span>And quiet gray tones soothe an inner pain.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="DREAMING_BY_THE_RIVER" id="DREAMING_BY_THE_RIVER" />DREAMING BY THE RIVER</h2>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span>Ripples on the water<br /></span>
+<span>Rustling in the trees<br /></span>
+<span>Wind sighing gently<br /></span>
+<span>Whistling by with ease.<br /></span>
+<span>Cow-bells tinkling distant<br /></span>
+<span>Farmer on the lea,<br /></span>
+<span>Cattle nibbling grasses<br /></span>
+<span>Little honey bee.<br /></span>
+<span>Frosted leaves of autumn<br /></span>
+<span>Sailing down the stream.<br /></span>
+<span>Neatest clump of willows,<br /></span>
+<span>Oh, for some ice cream.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="WHEN_YOU_COME_HOME" id="WHEN_YOU_COME_HOME" />WHEN YOU COME HOME</h2>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span>O happy, happy heart, that can but leap<br /></span>
+<span>For joy, when you return to me again;<br /></span>
+<span>The love within grows fresh as morning glen,<br /></span>
+<span>Awakes and lights the gloom where shadows creep.<br /></span>
+<span>&mdash;The night will come and with it women weep.<br /></span>
+<span>Stay, Dear, with me, for dark will come and then,<br /></span>
+<span>It fills the soul with fear&mdash;don't go again&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span>Black clouds will roll, when only children sleep.<br /></span>
+<span>O Darling storms of midnight vex and threat;<br /></span>
+<span>The gullies moan and then the goblins see!<br /></span>
+<span>It is not wise or brave to prattle so;<br /></span>
+<span>And Dear, if you must go, I will not fret;<br /></span>
+<span>The sun will shine when you come home to me,<br /></span>
+<span>Dark night is day and only mild winds blow.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="CHILDREN_AT_THE_PARK" id="CHILDREN_AT_THE_PARK" />CHILDREN AT THE PARK</h2>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span>We hop and skip in time<br /></span>
+<span>In the shade of the sycamore trees,<br /></span>
+<span>Fly around like the birds and the bees.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span>We swing and sway and climb<br /></span>
+<span>To the top of the strong monkey bars,<br /></span>
+<span>Watch the boats and the Riverside cars.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span>We swim and shout in glee,<br /></span>
+<span>While the ships on the river sail on.<br /></span>
+<span>How time flies and the morning is gone.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span>We leap and prance about<br /></span>
+<span>And we sing by the Riverside drive.<br /></span>
+<span>Thus we play and we eat and we thrive.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="THE_FLEET_1945" id="THE_FLEET_1945" />THE FLEET (1945)</h2>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span>A long line of ships,<br /></span>
+<span>War-scarred in glory smothered<br /></span>
+<span>On navy's glad day.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="SPRING_IS_BUDDING" id="SPRING_IS_BUDDING" />SPRING IS BUDDING</h2>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span>Why is the sun ashining<br /></span>
+<span>And all the faces glad?<br /></span>
+<span>Why are the buds abursting<br /></span>
+<span>And not, a thing is sad?<br /></span>
+<span class="i4">I hear the sparrow twittering<br /></span>
+<span class="i4">Her sweet old melody.<br /></span>
+<span class="i4">Darling the spring is budding<br /></span>
+<span class="i4">In all her ecstasy.<br /></span>
+<span>Spring and the sun are smiling<br /></span>
+<span>To bring the leaves and cress.<br /></span>
+<span>Love in the heart is waking<br /></span>
+<span>To give us happiness.<br /></span>
+<span class="i4">I hear the lark awarbling<br /></span>
+<span class="i4">Her sweet old melody.<br /></span>
+<span class="i4">And too my heart is singing<br /></span>
+<span class="i4">In happy ecstasy.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="BEAUTIFUL_ROSE" id="BEAUTIFUL_ROSE" />BEAUTIFUL ROSE</h2>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span>Beautiful rose<br /></span>
+<span>Your crimson velvet tells me<br /></span>
+<span>The loveliest message.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="SUN_ON_THE_RIVER" id="SUN_ON_THE_RIVER" />SUN ON THE RIVER</h2>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span>O river, flowing on,<br /></span>
+<span>In flashing sunlight roll,<br /></span>
+<span>And join the ocean lawn<br /></span>
+<span>Up to the island shoal.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span>O great and mighty stream,<br /></span>
+<span>With flaming breast and bow,<br /></span>
+<span>Your ferries glide and gleam<br /></span>
+<span>Through sparkling glare and glow.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span>O sun, on rolling wave<br /></span>
+<span>Shine far out to the sea,<br /></span>
+<span>And rounded billows pave,<br /></span>
+<span>Like quickened silver flee.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span>O sheets of dazzling light,<br /></span>
+<span>Move on close to the edge,<br /></span>
+<span>Where ships are anchored right,<br /></span>
+<span>And gold flames on the ledge.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span>O rivers, drifting fire<br /></span>
+<span>With steamers flaming wide,<br /></span>
+<span>Play on your silent lyre<br /></span>
+<span>Until the shadows hide.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="OUT_ON_THE_BAY" id="OUT_ON_THE_BAY" />OUT ON THE BAY</h2>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span>Out on the bay<br /></span>
+<span>Was spread a silver while sheet,<br /></span>
+<span>Glazed and painted by the sun,<br /></span>
+<span>Today.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span>Down in my heart<br /></span>
+<span>Was pain and sorrow's dark sleet<br /></span>
+<span>Eased and melted by the sun,<br /></span>
+<span>In part.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="RESTING" id="RESTING" />RESTING</h2>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span>There is no soothing so complete,<br /></span>
+<span>As sitting in the sun,<br /></span>
+<span>Or chasing butterflies through wheat,<br /></span>
+<span>Although no cloth is spun.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="A_SHOWERS_MELODY" id="A_SHOWERS_MELODY" />A SHOWER'S MELODY</h2>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span>A babbling brooklet wends its happy way<br /></span>
+<span>Adown a rocky path across the plain.<br /></span>
+<span>And goes a-galloping along in rain.<br /></span>
+<span>In drought he stops and waits a lucky day,<br /></span>
+<span>When clouds roll up and men and women pray,<br /></span>
+<span>And withered is the corn and grasses and grain.<br /></span>
+<span>The dust clings thick on every sill and pane.<br /></span>
+<span>A shower soon refreshes loam and clay.<br /></span>
+<span>The little stream resumes its cheerful hymn.<br /></span>
+<span>It warbles on content to sing and flow,<br /></span>
+<span>The music lilts and swells in happy glee;<br /></span>
+<span>And too, the birds and bees join in with vim,<br /></span>
+<span>Harmonious, alive, in twilight glow<br /></span>
+<span>A mighty choir of gorgeous melody!<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="IF_YOU_HEAR" id="IF_YOU_HEAR" />IF YOU HEAR</h2>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span>If you hear the scoff of friends,<br /></span>
+<span>Or see their anger grow,<br /></span>
+<span>Just please remember this,<br /></span>
+<span>Perhaps they do not know.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="DANCING_ON_A_LEVEL_ROAD" id="DANCING_ON_A_LEVEL_ROAD" />DANCING ON A LEVEL ROAD</h2>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span>It is a happy thing to dance<br /></span>
+<span>A long a level road<br /></span>
+<span>So brave a deed to take a chance<br /></span>
+<span>Of slipping off the load.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="IT_WAS_HOME" id="IT_WAS_HOME" />IT WAS HOME</h2>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span>A little old house in a sheltered nook,<br /></span>
+<span>Some cottonwood trees near a babbling brook,<br /></span>
+<span>A sturdy gnarled oak by a grassy lane<br /></span>
+<span>That leads to green pastures past flowing grain.<br /></span>
+<span>A trellised rose bush hides a crumbling wall,<br /></span>
+<span>Where lovers have stood near the waterfall;<br /></span>
+<span>Beyond the sun sets in a golden glow<br /></span>
+<span>And shadows stretch far to the mead below.<br /></span>
+<span>A shining wire fence follows up the hill<br /></span>
+<span>And curves about to the graded fill.<br /></span>
+<span>Then back to the house in a cozy spot<br /></span>
+<span>We loiter there on the hallowed lot,<br /></span>
+<span>Where Mother's sweet face waits, in gentle calm,<br /></span>
+<span>And Father sits near and roads an old psalm.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="QUESTIONS" id="QUESTIONS" />QUESTIONS</h2>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span>If I could brush the cobwebs from my eyes,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">What could I see?<br /></span>
+<span>If I could roll the boulder from my path,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">What would I be?<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="DISTRUST" id="DISTRUST" />DISTRUST</h2>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span>He walks the safest way;<br /></span>
+<span>There must be no thistles on his path.<br /></span>
+<span>He knows all men are clay.<br /></span>
+<span>If truth wears feathers in her cap,<br /></span>
+<span>They must be plucked away,<br /></span>
+<span>That all may proven be.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="COUNTING" id="COUNTING" />COUNTING</h2>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span>The morning sun casts purple in the fields,<br /></span>
+<span>A mocking bird sings gaily in the oaks,<br /></span>
+<span>White fluffy clouds rest in the murky sky.<br /></span>
+<span>It is yet cool, the maples scarcely stir,<br /></span>
+<span>But noon will burn the grasses by the way<br /></span>
+<span>And give the girl there at the soda fount<br /></span>
+<span>A welcome trade. The heat will parch the earth,<br /></span>
+<span>So that flowers will wilt and droop their charm.<br /></span>
+<span>But night will come and bring refreshing breeze<br /></span>
+<span>And fold a soothing mantle over all<br /></span>
+<span>Like mother spreading blankets over Tom.<br /></span>
+<span>Now day by day the summer slips on by,<br /></span>
+<span>Its stifling heat and gloomy skies will pass.<br /></span>
+<span>And winter cold will come with hoary frost;<br /></span>
+<span>Yet by our hearths we rest in quiet peace,<br /></span>
+<span>Secure our roofs and snug our sheltered beds.<br /></span>
+<span>Remember Spring, how roses bloom and flamed!<br /></span>
+<span>And how the sunny days kept pace with time.<br /></span>
+<span>In winter some hours will be gilded gold.<br /></span>
+<span>It's true our blessings add up more than half.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="ON_THE_FERRY" id="ON_THE_FERRY" />ON THE FERRY</h2>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span>A multitude of lights twinkled in glee;<br /></span>
+<span>Receding ones reached out, their friendship gleamed<br /></span>
+<span>With hands across to shield from dark, it seemed;<br /></span>
+<span>And coming dock was lit from home to sea.<br /></span>
+<span>There was no gloam and dusk for you and me.<br /></span>
+<span>The stars above, grand sentinels all reamed,<br /></span>
+<span>Conducting us home like naught ever dreamed;<br /></span>
+<span>The scalloped bridge festooned like a Christmas tree,<br /></span>
+<span>And gate post lamps led strangers through the park.<br /></span>
+<span>Our fathers planned that all should walk in light,<br /></span>
+<span>That every man could find his way like day,<br /></span>
+<span>Until the amber dawning wake the lark.<br /></span>
+<span>Thus peacefully we glided through the night,<br /></span>
+<span>Serenely going home the ferry way.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="PERHAPS" id="PERHAPS" />PERHAPS</h2>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span>I see a gorgeous city, pompous, grand,<br /></span>
+<span>And hear it weeping with pain long borne.<br /></span>
+<span>It is built on rock and nobly planned,<br /></span>
+<span>The glory shine like bloom with leaf and thorn.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span>I feel its memories in brick and stone,<br /></span>
+<span>And lift my eyes to see the sky and stars.<br /></span>
+<span>Unpainted rock in weathered greys and blown<br /></span>
+<span>With winds and well I understand the bars.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span>From walk to turret there are many eyes,<br /></span>
+<span>Perhaps some measuring these thoughts of mine,<br /></span>
+<span>What color hair? How long the coat and thighs?<br /></span>
+<span>It may be true we drink the self-same wine.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="OKLAHOMA" id="OKLAHOMA" />OKLAHOMA</h2>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span>Hail Oklahoma land! O prairie plain,<br /></span>
+<span>There is no state more dearly loved.&mdash;All hail!<br /></span>
+<span>Where grassy hills and sheltered cove and vale<br /></span>
+<span>Rest quietly in peace&mdash;and in refrain<br /></span>
+<span>Our voices lift in praise and joy again;<br /></span>
+<span>We sing of Oklahoma land.&mdash;All hail!<br /></span>
+<span>Of sunny skies and even windy gale,<br /></span>
+<span>And wealth of growing corn and flowing grain;<br /></span>
+<span>Where black gold gleams and roses bloom in spring.<br /></span>
+<span>Here long roads stretch and grazing cow-herds roam.<br /></span>
+<span>We build in faith great churches and our state<br /></span>
+<span>With many schools, where children gaily sing.<br /></span>
+<span>We love our loamy fields and prairie home<br /></span>
+<span>And struggle onward upward, soon and late.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span>Hail Oklahoma land! O grassy plain,<br /></span>
+<span>There is no state more dearly loved.&mdash;All hail!<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="OUR_MORNING_PRAYER" id="OUR_MORNING_PRAYER" />OUR MORNING PRAYER</h2>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span>Our Father in heaven,<br /></span>
+<span>Drive from the soul the hopelessness,<br /></span>
+<span>Fill it with charity and faith,<br /></span>
+<span>And fire the heart with kindliness,<br /></span>
+<span>For Jesus sake, amen.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="WE_THANK_OUR_GOD" id="WE_THANK_OUR_GOD" />WE THANK OUR GOD</h2>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span>We thank our God for this glad Christmas day,<br /></span>
+<span>For health and freedom, peace and hope today.<br /></span>
+<span>We float our flag on every hill and trail;<br /></span>
+<span>All Hail! The red and white and blue, all hail!<br /></span>
+<span>Again upon the board a feast is spread,<br /></span>
+<span>And God now guards and blesses our good bread.<br /></span>
+<span>Our turkey's big and fat and pudding brown,<br /></span>
+<span>And we will smile all day and wear no frown.<br /></span>
+<span>Once more our bins are filled with corn and wheat,<br /></span>
+<span>The bread we break is good, so light and sweet,<br /></span>
+<span>Cranberries, pumpkin pies and walnut meats.<br /></span>
+<span>We bow to thank our God for these good eats.<br /></span>
+<span>This land America! To God give thanks.<br /></span>
+<span>Our men are strong and brave in all the ranks.<br /></span>
+<span>All Hail America! Our hope and pride.<br /></span>
+<span>God bless our home and now with us abide.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="WAITING" id="WAITING" />WAITING</h2>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span>The waiting minutes<br /></span>
+<span>Tick on but never ending<br /></span>
+<span>To eternity.<br /></span>
+<span>The years do not wait.<br /></span>
+<span>So stealthily do they move,<br /></span>
+<span>Like deep swift water.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="THAT_HAPPY_COMPANIONSHIP" id="THAT_HAPPY_COMPANIONSHIP" />THAT HAPPY COMPANIONSHIP</h2>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span>Remembering friends of the not long ago,<br /></span>
+<span>Their laughter a gay bubbling song.<br /></span>
+<span>The whispering of secrets, the rapture of show.<br /></span>
+<span>The mounting of spirits lit the peak aglow<br /></span>
+<span>And lifted the heart up along<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span>The forgetting of wrong in a moment of joy,<br /></span>
+<span>Quite erased the hurt and the scar,<br /></span>
+<span>With music of kindness and naught to annoy,<br /></span>
+<span>And gold of the friendship refusing alloy.<br /></span>
+<span>Thus comrades in their happiness are.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="I_WATCHED_MY_FLOWERS" id="I_WATCHED_MY_FLOWERS" />I WATCHED MY FLOWERS</h2>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span>I watched my flowers grow and brighten barren places;<br /></span>
+<span>They smiled at me the whole day long with brilliant faces<br /></span>
+<span>The blues and reds, the white and yellow in morning dews<br /></span>
+<span>Drove out the hurt of bitter grief and other bruise,<br /></span>
+<span>But now the drought will blight the tender buds and leaves.<br /></span>
+<span>And parch the earth as the winds blow on scorching sprees,<br /></span>
+<span>'Til July's heat and August sun are duly past,<br /></span>
+<span>Yet many things are fine and good at weary last<br /></span>
+<span>For if the rain should come, good seed would surely die.<br /></span>
+<span>In truth, I should be thankful for a cloudless sky<br /></span>
+<span>To ripen seed that sprout and grow in barren places.<br /></span>
+<span>And wink at me next year with bright and smiling faces<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="BEES_OF_HATRED" id="BEES_OF_HATRED" />BEES OF HATRED</h2>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span>The bees of hatred hover<br /></span>
+<span>Above and around us.<br /></span>
+<span>A good crop will be hatched<br /></span>
+<span>To torment and sting us.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="THIS_AFTERNOON" id="THIS_AFTERNOON" />THIS AFTERNOON</h2>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span>This afternoon, an angry heart and crude<br /></span>
+<span>Consoled himself with an unkindly deed.<br /></span>
+<span>Within his soul was hate like garden weed,<br /></span>
+<span>That choked the buds and bulbs. In childish feud,<br /></span>
+<span>His glee, like noisy urchins brash and rude,<br /></span>
+<span>Who trample flowers, pay no thoughtful heed.<br /></span>
+<span>The careless acts bring harm and pain with speed.<br /></span>
+<span>And sin-scarred hearts deceive themselves, delude<br /></span>
+<span>No one. Such souls will have few friends at last.<br /></span>
+<span>When life is hard, no one will bear his care<br /></span>
+<span>Unless a kindly one, who looks about<br /></span>
+<span>To help, to pull and clear. The field is vast!<br /></span>
+<span>O weary man! Unhappy world! &quot;Unfair<br /></span>
+<span>Is life&quot; men say, &quot;The whole is full of doubt.&quot;<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="SHE_RETURNED_IT" id="SHE_RETURNED_IT" />SHE RETURNED IT</h2>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span>She borrowed a lump of sugar<br /></span>
+<span>To sweeten a cup of tea.<br /></span>
+<span>I felt so very silly<br /></span>
+<span>When she brought it back to me.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="TO_MY_FRIENDS" id="TO_MY_FRIENDS" />TO MY FRIENDS</h2>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span>On Christmas day, let happy dreams<br /></span>
+<span>Sparkle and flow like bubbling streams.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="A_MAIDENS_DREAM" id="A_MAIDENS_DREAM" />A MAIDEN'S DREAM</h2>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span>I often think and dream and ponder<br /></span>
+<span>Of things that I have seen,<br /></span>
+<span>And twist the real into a wonder<br /></span>
+<span>When men and birds convene.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span>If I could reach that star up yonder,<br /></span>
+<span>My soul would lift and preen;<br /></span>
+<span>If Summertime would always stay<br /></span>
+<span>My yard would be more green.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span>I see the airplane rise and soaring<br /></span>
+<span>On all bright days and fair;<br /></span>
+<span>The tiny specks go roaring out<br /></span>
+<span>Across the hills from care.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span>If my good pilot friend is landing<br /></span>
+<span>On some star world up there.<br /></span>
+<span>He might bring back some silver<br /></span>
+<span>Or flowers for my hair.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="PROMISES" id="PROMISES" />PROMISES</h2>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span>On New Year's day<br /></span>
+<span>Mankind makes promises<br /></span>
+<span>Of gossamer film.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="IN_BOASTFUL_PRIDE" id="IN_BOASTFUL_PRIDE" />IN BOASTFUL PRIDE</h2>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span>He walked quite proudly on the rocky ledge<br /></span>
+<span>And shouted, &quot;I am standing here so high!<br /></span>
+<span>How fine the valley and the flowing rye,<br /></span>
+<span>I see the barn that's near the osage hedge;<br /></span>
+<span>Come look&mdash;it's splendid from this shaly edge!&quot;<br /></span>
+<span>He leaned far out and slipped&mdash;the foolish guy.<br /></span>
+<span>Where he had stood was only murky sky.<br /></span>
+<span>To face great danger is a privilege.<br /></span>
+<span>Don't dare for show, my boy, the rock might slide.<br /></span>
+<span>For worthy cause the brave will stand or fall,<br /></span>
+<span>But watch the stepping where the bluff is steep;<br /></span>
+<span>Remember too when flushed with boastful pride,<br /></span>
+<span>Men take most careless risks&mdash;don't reckon all;<br /></span>
+<span>And then&mdash;a life goes out in just one leap.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="IN_THE_STORM" id="IN_THE_STORM" />IN THE STORM</h2>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span>Hear the gale roaring through woods!<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Trees bend and snap and sway,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">They race and break on this dark day.<br /></span>
+<span>If I could fashion some sturdy hoods<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">To hold the storm at bay,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Then trim and straight would all trees stay.<br /></span>
+<span>But great trees knotted by winds' moods<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">&mdash;Like men who face their care&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span>Stand scarred yet staunch and bravely there.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+<hr style='width: 65%;' />
+
+<p>THE PRESS OF FLOZARI</p>
+
+<p>COLOPHON</p>
+
+<p>This is number 107 of the Torchbearers' Chapbooks, printed by hand at
+the Pegasus Studio, from hand-set 10 point Century on Eggshell paper,
+in an edition of 110 copies and the type distributed.</p>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Copies may be secured from the author, at 75&cent; each, postpaid</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Clara M. Beede, 146-1/2 North College, Tulsa 4, Okla.</span><br />
+</p>
+
+
+
+
+
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+Title: Some Broken Twigs
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+Author: Clara M. Beede
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+_Some Broken Twigs_
+
+
+_BY_
+CLARA M. BEEDE
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+The Press of Flozari, Pegasus Studios
+Box 5804, Cleveland, 1, Ohio
+1946
+
+
+     _Dedicated to my granddaughter
+      BETTY TODD BRISTOW
+      the new mother_
+
+
+
+ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
+
+We are grateful for permission to include certain poems that were
+first published in Caravan of Verse, Cass County Democrat, 1943
+Chipmunk, From, Lyricists Reflections, 1940 Song Poems, The New Earth,
+Tulsa Tribune, and 1941 Visions.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+OTHER TORCHBEARER CHAPBOOKS
+
+by
+
+CLARA M. BEEDE
+
+  45: Brown Plumes
+  51: More Brown Plumes
+  63: Sunshine and Rain
+  73: Clear Crystals (Second Printing)
+  88: Only Pebbles
+  94: Golden Leaves
+  98: Sail High Above
+
+
+
+
+FOREWORD
+
+
+In the four seasons of the year there are many beautiful days as well
+as dismal days in life. The broken twigs and trails, as well as the
+good ones go to make up this world. All mark and show posterity the
+way out of the woods.
+
+These poems, and many other poems written by Mrs. Beede show these
+things and the wonders of nature.
+
+As only a true mother can, she has shown me these wonders. I sincerely
+hope that all who read her poems will appreciate them as I do and reap
+the benefit of the morals of her thoughtful and enjoyable poems and
+know as I do her love of nature and things beautiful.
+
+Genevieve Beede Henderson
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+TO NEW YORK
+
+
+  For maid and lad New York is fairy land,
+  Delightful charms in gorgeous brilliant lure!
+  Our youth do struggle on ambition's tour.
+  They meet life's challenge with true heart and hand.
+  Forgotten trails are marked with scar and wand;
+  A blasted rock and broken twigs assure
+  The traveler that others fought the moor,
+  And sailed the stormy breakers, crossed the sand
+  To build the city on a granite slab.
+  They tamed the wilderness, a sturdy clan!
+  Retracing paths recall the glory made,
+  Lays bare the secrets of the field and lab.
+  Such tours give hope for future life and plan.
+  Brave men have set the torch with ax and spade.
+
+
+
+
+MEET THE CHALLENGE
+
+
+  The coddled youth, like greenhouse plant
+  Will wilt and die in desert sand,
+  Can never meet the storms of life,
+  Untried and mild and soft his hands.
+
+  He walks within the favored nooks,
+  Protected there much more than those,
+  Who meet the challenge face ahead,
+  And struggle on to conquer foes.
+
+  They learn to take the gaff and thrust,
+  And from an inner courage gain
+  A faith in toil and love of truth;
+  They pray to God to ease the pain.
+
+
+
+
+WINTER
+
+
+  A glow of life shines from the leaf-stripped limbs,
+  In sheltered nooks snowbirds are singing hymns.
+  The sycamore shafts gleam and shine afar,
+  Down by the river where the black oaks are.
+  The goldenrod now droops his fuzzy head;
+  There by my fence, leaves make a fluffy bed.
+  They mulch my flower seed down in the loam;
+  Beyond below the tall sedge grasses moan.
+  Seared grass curls firmly over tender sprigs,
+  And my rose bush there curves its brown thorned twigs.
+  Beneath my window, tulip bulbs lay snug,
+  Quite safe and warm in earthy winter rug.
+  All nature resting for a springtime gain,
+  And quiet gray tones soothe an inner pain.
+
+
+
+
+DREAMING BY THE RIVER
+
+
+  Ripples on the water
+  Rustling in the trees
+  Wind sighing gently
+  Whistling by with ease.
+  Cow-bells tinkling distant
+  Farmer on the lea,
+  Cattle nibbling grasses
+  Little honey bee.
+  Frosted leaves of autumn
+  Sailing down the stream.
+  Neatest clump of willows,
+  Oh, for some ice cream.
+
+
+
+
+WHEN YOU COME HOME
+
+
+  O happy, happy heart, that can but leap
+  For joy, when you return to me again;
+  The love within grows fresh as morning glen,
+  Awakes and lights the gloom where shadows creep.
+  --The night will come and with it women weep.
+  Stay, Dear, with me, for dark will come and then,
+  It fills the soul with fear--don't go again--
+  Black clouds will roll, when only children sleep.
+  O Darling storms of midnight vex and threat;
+  The gullies moan and then the goblins see!
+  It is not wise or brave to prattle so;
+  And Dear, if you must go, I will not fret;
+  The sun will shine when you come home to me,
+  Dark night is day and only mild winds blow.
+
+
+
+
+CHILDREN AT THE PARK
+
+
+  We hop and skip in time
+  In the shade of the sycamore trees,
+  Fly around like the birds and the bees.
+
+  We swing and sway and climb
+  To the top of the strong monkey bars,
+  Watch the boats and the Riverside cars.
+
+  We swim and shout in glee,
+  While the ships on the river sail on.
+  How time flies and the morning is gone.
+
+  We leap and prance about
+  And we sing by the Riverside drive.
+  Thus we play and we eat and we thrive.
+
+
+
+
+THE FLEET (1945)
+
+
+  A long line of ships,
+  War-scarred in glory smothered
+  On navy's glad day.
+
+
+
+
+SPRING IS BUDDING
+
+
+  Why is the sun ashining
+  And all the faces glad?
+  Why are the buds abursting
+  And not, a thing is sad?
+        I hear the sparrow twittering
+        Her sweet old melody.
+        Darling the spring is budding
+        In all her ecstasy.
+  Spring and the sun are smiling
+  To bring the leaves and cress.
+  Love in the heart is waking
+  To give us happiness.
+        I hear the lark awarbling
+        Her sweet old melody.
+        And too my heart is singing
+        In happy ecstasy.
+
+
+
+
+BEAUTIFUL ROSE
+
+
+  Beautiful rose
+  Your crimson velvet tells me
+  The loveliest message.
+
+
+
+
+SUN ON THE RIVER
+
+
+  O river, flowing on,
+  In flashing sunlight roll,
+  And join the ocean lawn
+  Up to the island shoal.
+
+  O great and mighty stream,
+  With flaming breast and bow,
+  Your ferries glide and gleam
+  Through sparkling glare and glow.
+
+  O sun, on rolling wave
+  Shine far out to the sea,
+  And rounded billows pave,
+  Like quickened silver flee.
+
+  O sheets of dazzling light,
+  Move on close to the edge,
+  Where ships are anchored right,
+  And gold flames on the ledge.
+
+  O rivers, drifting fire
+  With steamers flaming wide,
+  Play on your silent lyre
+  Until the shadows hide.
+
+
+
+
+OUT ON THE BAY
+
+
+  Out on the bay
+  Was spread a silver while sheet,
+  Glazed and painted by the sun,
+  Today.
+
+  Down in my heart
+  Was pain and sorrow's dark sleet
+  Eased and melted by the sun,
+  In part.
+
+
+
+
+RESTING
+
+
+  There is no soothing so complete,
+    As sitting in the sun,
+  Or chasing butterflies through wheat,
+    Although no cloth is spun.
+
+
+
+
+A SHOWER'S MELODY
+
+
+  A babbling brooklet wends its happy way
+  Adown a rocky path across the plain.
+  And goes a-galloping along in rain.
+  In drought he stops and waits a lucky day,
+  When clouds roll up and men and women pray,
+  And withered is the corn and grasses and grain.
+  The dust clings thick on every sill and pane.
+  A shower soon refreshes loam and clay.
+  The little stream resumes its cheerful hymn.
+  It warbles on content to sing and flow,
+  The music lilts and swells in happy glee;
+  And too, the birds and bees join in with vim,
+  Harmonious, alive, in twilight glow
+  A mighty choir of gorgeous melody!
+
+
+
+
+IF YOU HEAR
+
+
+  If you hear the scoff of friends,
+  Or see their anger grow,
+  Just please remember this,
+  Perhaps they do not know.
+
+
+
+
+DANCING ON A LEVEL ROAD
+
+
+  It is a happy thing to dance
+    A long a level road
+  So brave a deed to take a chance
+    Of slipping off the load.
+
+
+
+
+IT WAS HOME
+
+
+  A little old house in a sheltered nook,
+  Some cottonwood trees near a babbling brook,
+  A sturdy gnarled oak by a grassy lane
+  That leads to green pastures past flowing grain.
+  A trellised rose bush hides a crumbling wall,
+  Where lovers have stood near the waterfall;
+  Beyond the sun sets in a golden glow
+  And shadows stretch far to the mead below.
+  A shining wire fence follows up the hill
+  And curves about to the graded fill.
+  Then back to the house in a cozy spot
+  We loiter there on the hallowed lot,
+  Where Mother's sweet face waits, in gentle calm,
+  And Father sits near and roads an old psalm.
+
+
+
+
+QUESTIONS
+
+
+  If I could brush the cobwebs from my eyes,
+      What could I see?
+  If I could roll the boulder from my path,
+      What would I be?
+
+
+
+
+DISTRUST
+
+
+  He walks the safest way;
+  There must be no thistles on his path.
+  He knows all men are clay.
+  If truth wears feathers in her cap,
+  They must be plucked away,
+  That all may proven be.
+
+
+
+
+COUNTING
+
+
+  The morning sun casts purple in the fields,
+  A mocking bird sings gaily in the oaks,
+  White fluffy clouds rest in the murky sky.
+  It is yet cool, the maples scarcely stir,
+  But noon will burn the grasses by the way
+  And give the girl there at the soda fount
+  A welcome trade. The heat will parch the earth,
+  So that flowers will wilt and droop their charm.
+  But night will come and bring refreshing breeze
+  And fold a soothing mantle over all
+  Like mother spreading blankets over Tom.
+  Now day by day the summer slips on by,
+  Its stifling heat and gloomy skies will pass.
+  And winter cold will come with hoary frost;
+  Yet by our hearths we rest in quiet peace,
+  Secure our roofs and snug our sheltered beds.
+  Remember Spring, how roses bloom and flamed!
+  And how the sunny days kept pace with time.
+  In winter some hours will be gilded gold.
+  It's true our blessings add up more than half.
+
+
+
+
+ON THE FERRY
+
+
+  A multitude of lights twinkled in glee;
+  Receding ones reached out, their friendship gleamed
+  With hands across to shield from dark, it seemed;
+  And coming dock was lit from home to sea.
+  There was no gloam and dusk for you and me.
+  The stars above, grand sentinels all reamed,
+  Conducting us home like naught ever dreamed;
+  The scalloped bridge festooned like a Christmas tree,
+  And gate post lamps led strangers through the park.
+  Our fathers planned that all should walk in light,
+  That every man could find his way like day,
+  Until the amber dawning wake the lark.
+  Thus peacefully we glided through the night,
+  Serenely going home the ferry way.
+
+
+
+
+PERHAPS
+
+
+  I see a gorgeous city, pompous, grand,
+  And hear it weeping with pain long borne.
+  It is built on rock and nobly planned,
+  The glory shine like bloom with leaf and thorn.
+
+  I feel its memories in brick and stone,
+  And lift my eyes to see the sky and stars.
+  Unpainted rock in weathered greys and blown
+  With winds and well I understand the bars.
+
+  From walk to turret there are many eyes,
+  Perhaps some measuring these thoughts of mine,
+  What color hair? How long the coat and thighs?
+  It may be true we drink the self-same wine.
+
+
+
+
+OKLAHOMA
+
+
+  Hail Oklahoma land! O prairie plain,
+  There is no state more dearly loved.--All hail!
+  Where grassy hills and sheltered cove and vale
+  Rest quietly in peace--and in refrain
+  Our voices lift in praise and joy again;
+  We sing of Oklahoma land.--All hail!
+  Of sunny skies and even windy gale,
+  And wealth of growing corn and flowing grain;
+  Where black gold gleams and roses bloom in spring.
+  Here long roads stretch and grazing cow-herds roam.
+  We build in faith great churches and our state
+  With many schools, where children gaily sing.
+  We love our loamy fields and prairie home
+  And struggle onward upward, soon and late.
+
+  Hail Oklahoma land! O grassy plain,
+  There is no state more dearly loved.--All hail!
+
+
+
+
+OUR MORNING PRAYER
+
+
+  Our Father in heaven,
+  Drive from the soul the hopelessness,
+  Fill it with charity and faith,
+  And fire the heart with kindliness,
+  For Jesus sake, amen.
+
+
+
+
+WE THANK OUR GOD
+
+
+  We thank our God for this glad Christmas day,
+  For health and freedom, peace and hope today.
+  We float our flag on every hill and trail;
+  All Hail! The red and white and blue, all hail!
+  Again upon the board a feast is spread,
+  And God now guards and blesses our good bread.
+  Our turkey's big and fat and pudding brown,
+  And we will smile all day and wear no frown.
+  Once more our bins are filled with corn and wheat,
+  The bread we break is good, so light and sweet,
+  Cranberries, pumpkin pies and walnut meats.
+  We bow to thank our God for these good eats.
+  This land America! To God give thanks.
+  Our men are strong and brave in all the ranks.
+  All Hail America! Our hope and pride.
+  God bless our home and now with us abide.
+
+
+
+
+WAITING
+
+
+  The waiting minutes
+  Tick on but never ending
+  To eternity.
+  The years do not wait.
+  So stealthily do they move,
+  Like deep swift water.
+
+
+
+
+THAT HAPPY COMPANIONSHIP
+
+
+  Remembering friends of the not long ago,
+  Their laughter a gay bubbling song.
+  The whispering of secrets, the rapture of show.
+  The mounting of spirits lit the peak aglow
+  And lifted the heart up along
+
+  The forgetting of wrong in a moment of joy,
+  Quite erased the hurt and the scar,
+  With music of kindness and naught to annoy,
+  And gold of the friendship refusing alloy.
+  Thus comrades in their happiness are.
+
+
+
+
+I WATCHED MY FLOWERS
+
+
+  I watched my flowers grow and brighten barren places;
+  They smiled at me the whole day long with brilliant faces
+  The blues and reds, the white and yellow in morning dews
+  Drove out the hurt of bitter grief and other bruise,
+  But now the drought will blight the tender buds and leaves.
+  And parch the earth as the winds blow on scorching sprees,
+  'Til July's heat and August sun are duly past,
+  Yet many things are fine and good at weary last
+  For if the rain should come, good seed would surely die.
+  In truth, I should be thankful for a cloudless sky
+  To ripen seed that sprout and grow in barren places.
+  And wink at me next year with bright and smiling faces
+
+
+
+
+BEES OF HATRED
+
+
+  The bees of hatred hover
+  Above and around us.
+  A good crop will be hatched
+  To torment and sting us.
+
+
+
+
+THIS AFTERNOON
+
+
+  This afternoon, an angry heart and crude
+  Consoled himself with an unkindly deed.
+  Within his soul was hate like garden weed,
+  That choked the buds and bulbs. In childish feud,
+  His glee, like noisy urchins brash and rude,
+  Who trample flowers, pay no thoughtful heed.
+  The careless acts bring harm and pain with speed.
+  And sin-scarred hearts deceive themselves, delude
+  No one. Such souls will have few friends at last.
+  When life is hard, no one will bear his care
+  Unless a kindly one, who looks about
+  To help, to pull and clear. The field is vast!
+  O weary man! Unhappy world! "Unfair
+  Is life" men say, "The whole is full of doubt."
+
+
+
+
+SHE RETURNED IT
+
+
+  She borrowed a lump of sugar
+    To sweeten a cup of tea.
+  I felt so very silly
+    When she brought it back to me.
+
+
+
+
+TO MY FRIENDS
+
+
+  On Christmas day, let happy dreams
+  Sparkle and flow like bubbling streams.
+
+
+
+
+A MAIDEN'S DREAM
+
+
+  I often think and dream and ponder
+    Of things that I have seen,
+  And twist the real into a wonder
+    When men and birds convene.
+
+  If I could reach that star up yonder,
+    My soul would lift and preen;
+  If Summertime would always stay
+    My yard would be more green.
+
+  I see the airplane rise and soaring
+    On all bright days and fair;
+  The tiny specks go roaring out
+    Across the hills from care.
+
+  If my good pilot friend is landing
+    On some star world up there.
+  He might bring back some silver
+    Or flowers for my hair.
+
+
+
+
+PROMISES
+
+
+  On New Year's day
+    Mankind makes promises
+  Of gossamer film.
+
+
+
+
+IN BOASTFUL PRIDE
+
+
+  He walked quite proudly on the rocky ledge
+  And shouted, "I am standing here so high!
+  How fine the valley and the flowing rye,
+  I see the barn that's near the osage hedge;
+  Come look--it's splendid from this shaly edge!"
+  He leaned far out and slipped--the foolish guy.
+  Where he had stood was only murky sky.
+  To face great danger is a privilege.
+  Don't dare for show, my boy, the rock might slide.
+  For worthy cause the brave will stand or fall,
+  But watch the stepping where the bluff is steep;
+  Remember too when flushed with boastful pride,
+  Men take most careless risks--don't reckon all;
+  And then--a life goes out in just one leap.
+
+
+
+
+IN THE STORM
+
+
+  Hear the gale roaring through woods!
+      Trees bend and snap and sway,
+      They race and break on this dark day.
+  If I could fashion some sturdy hoods
+      To hold the storm at bay,
+      Then trim and straight would all trees stay.
+  But great trees knotted by winds' moods
+      --Like men who face their care--
+  Stand scarred yet staunch and bravely there.
+
+
+
+THE PRESS OF FLOZARI
+
+COLOPHON
+
+This is number 107 of the Torchbearers' Chapbooks, printed by hand at
+the Pegasus Studio, from hand-set 10 point Century on Eggshell paper,
+in an edition of 110 copies and the type distributed.
+
+  Copies may be secured from the author, at 75c each, postpaid
+  Clara M. Beede, 146-1/2 North College, Tulsa 4, Okla.
+
+
+
+
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