Blanche Edith Baughan

“ Mist and bright sea, low plain and lofty snows,
City of man that gleams, City of God that glows———
How, to Thine absolute view
That aye the depth can see, the surface through,
Appears the lovely symbol shining there? ”

“ Breathes-in the freshness of the large hill-air,
Basks in the blessed light spread everywhere;
Seems, even, down to gaze,
Far, far down, on the shining waterways,
Wandering ’mid shoals of sand and salty weed,
Of yon wide Estuary....
But eyes can gaze, it takes a mind to see! ”