“Wha will be a traitor knave? 
   Wha can fill a coward’s grave? 
   Wha so base as be a slave? 
   Let him turn and flee!”

=Faith.=—­And after the sounds of battle are hushed he sings “To Mary in Heaven” and causes the man to stand in the presence of the Burning Bush and to hear the command “Put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.”  And the heart of the man grows tender as the poet opens his eyes to catch a glimpse of the life of faith that the star foretells even as the Star of Bethlehem was prophetic.  And, through the eyes of the lover, he looks over into the other life and knows that his faith is not in vain.  And when faith sits enthroned, the music of the brook at his feet becomes sweeter, the stars shine more brightly, the earth becomes a place of gladness, and life is far more worth while.  The poet has caused the scales to fall from his eyes and through them the light of Heaven has streamed into his soul.

=The teacher’s influx of life.=—­And the teacher imbibes the spirit of the poet and becomes vital and thus becomes attuned to all life.  Flowers spring up in her pathway because they are claiming kinship with the flowers that are blooming in her soul.  The insect chirps forth its music, and her own spirit joins in the chorus of the forest.  The brooklet laughs as it ripples its way toward the sea, and her spirit laughs in unison because the poet has poured his laughter into her soul.  She stands unafraid in the presence of the storm because her feeling for majesty overmasters her apprehension of danger.  The lightning’s flash may rend the oak but, even so, she stands in mute admiration at this wondrous manifestation of life.  Her quickened spirit responds to the roll and reverberation of the thunder because she has grown to womanhood through the poet’s copious draughts of life.

=The book of life.=—­The voices of the night enchant her and the stars take her into their counsels.  The swaying tree speaks her language because both speak the language of life.  She takes delight in the lexicon of the planets because it interprets to her the book of life, and in the revelations of this book she finds her chief joy.  For her there are no dull moments whether she wanders by the river, through the glades, or over the hills, because she is ever turning the pages of this book.  She moves among the things of life and accounts them all her friends and companions.  She knows their moods and their language and with them holds intimate communion.  They smile upon her because she can reciprocate their smiles.  Life to her is a buoyant, a joyous experience each hour of the day because the poet has poured into her spirit its fuller, deeper meanings.

=The teaching.=—­And because the poet has touched her spirit with the wand of his power the waters of life gush forth in sparkling abundance.  And children come to the fountain of her life and drink of its waters and are thereby refreshed and invigorated.  Then they smile back their gratitude to her in their exuberance of joyous life.