ZEST.

By Rose Hawthorne Lathrop

Labor not in the murky dell,

But till your harvest hill at morn;

Stoop to no words that, rank and fell,

Grow faster than the rustling corn.

With gladdening eyes go greet the sun,

Who lifts his brow in varied light;

Bring light where'er your feet may run:

So bring a day to sorrow's night.