Children Asleep (verse)
Bunker, John
446 THE COMMONWEAL September4, I929 in certain functional diseases. It also is used in the manufacture of artificial silk. Most of our rubber of commerce is obtained from the Hevea trees...
...They are the words, chicken and pilaf...
...How long ago it all seems...
...446 THE COMMONWEAL September4, I929 in certain functional diseases...
...In city or village, it mattered not which, he thrust himself upon the company at large and as many of the folk individually as time and circumstance permitted...
...And Beenoo who was hovering near: "Two words alone taste sweet upon my lips, today, O Master of the Feast...
...It also is used in the manufacture of artificial silk...
...I pause beside each bed, bend o'er the little sleepers With awed, quiescent heart and reverent will, Raising a prayer that their great angelic keepers Will watch and guard them, lying so meek and still...
...For Beenoo is gone, those who sat with him at feast and fast are gone, and the pleasant places where they sat are plowed by war and watered by tears...
...Folk's joking and teasing were wine to the soul of Beenoo, not vinegar as to the souls of some...
...This shrub does well under cultivation on richer lands, and 1,8OO acres of land in California are now being devoted to its production...
...To what far strands or magic isles are you faring, 0 little sleepers of mine, o'er what dim seas...
...They had lost a daughter and gained naught...
...Naught do I hear but the sound of their gentle breathing And my gaze is lost in a tangle of innocent hair...
...This rubber is of high quality, as indicated by the experiments of the Bureau of Standards which reports that "experiments indicate that properly prepared guayule rubber will compare favorably with plantation Hevea rubber...
...But who is able to forget the wedding feast when little Penna, daughter of Yuash of Nadirabad, became bride of Gewergis, son of Yonan of Shirwan...
...And in the long fast, when folk were sighing in their hearts for goodly mutton stew while feeding upon beans, yet durst not speak a word, lest they offend God's holiness or the ears of tender children, he would wag his poor bemused head with, " 'Tis plain God loves feasts more than fasts...
...Not only this is the voyage we'll not be sharing, And you witI know more perilous waters than these...
...These indications point to the development of a new industry which will utilize a definite portion of our agricultural land for industrial purposes, thus reducing the surplus production of our common farm crops...
...Most of our rubber of commerce is obtained from the Hevea trees grown under cultivation, but some is obtained from the guayule shrub which grows wild in Mexico...
...Remote from my care they seem and my brooding love...
...just as prosperity was established in industry by the utilization and elimination of waste in that line...
...Ghi/dren Asleep The night is still, the tides of sleep are flowing Fluently, tenderly, over, beneath, above Their delicate limbs and quenching their eyes' bright glowing...
...that none equaled him in love of savory viands, or could tuck away so large a portion of them...
...His belly was empty, and he was waiting with dwindling patience for the men to finish their feasting in the big upper room, that the women and children might gather in the cook room to deplete the innumerable bowls and platters, when he and God's poor were free to polish them...
...As industrial chemistry is applied to the utilization of the wastes of the farm, the farming business will become increasingly prosperous...
...God made her for bearing children to praise Him...
...The silly smile, the restless eyes were ever in evidence...
...Laughter sprang up to greet the words, and Beenoo was ready for his hour of banter, happy that the eyes of men were upon him, that merriment rang about him, that for the time being, he was part and parcel of the common fabric of life...
...Softly I leave them, alone in the dark night sleeping, Profound in their trust, lying so meek and mild, Softly I leave them content, in the perfect keeping Of a love more mighty than mine, I too a child...
...BEENOO THE FOOL By MARY FLEMING LABAREE HE fatuous open-mouthed grin showed what he was: God's fool...
...Joan BV~K~R...
...Ai, the hurt of it...
...but to be passed unnoted was the brimstone with raw egg they stir into grape molasses and push down the throat of a colicky horse...
...mutton on the top...
...And he would say to the weeping mother : "Nay, sister, grieve not...
...Farming is an industry which produces food for human consumption and raw material for manufacture...
...and each was so intent on the words of the other they did not hear the "Peace upon you l" of Beenoo, neither did they see him waiting expectantly before the shop of Mahmud, the grocer...
...Ai, ai...
...What are the words of thy mouth this day...
...The laughter was so pleasant a thing he almost forgot that his girdle was more closely drawn than its custom was and called for yet another drawing-in...
...See also, how the little granddaughter, child of thy son, doth cling to thy knee...
...I can hear her jolly father-in-law call, "Come Beenoo, come hither, man...
...Were they not warm enough, were they not high enough already, in that they had acquired a bride who should bear sons to their house...
...Solemn night's stillness, solemn the starry wreathing Wherewith the arching heavens are glistening fair...
...He snatched up a split cobble...
...The amount of Hevea rubber being imported into the United States is constantly increasing, as indicated by the following data: I924 3,038,000 pounds I925 8,469,ooo " x9z6 9,643,ooo " I9~ 7 II,I74,ooo " It comes entirely from Mexico, where a subsidiary of the International Rubber Company owns about 1,8oo,ooo acres of land on which the wild shrub grows...
...Yet never was there one in the likeness of men who had so devouring a passion "to be seen of men" as poor Beenoo...
...and "Beans are grown at the foot of the hill of God...
...Doubtless there would have been a split head if the half-stone had not whirred between the busy right ear of Maryam Khanum and the busy left ear of Shushan Khanum...
...One afternoon two friendly ladies drove out on the street toward the city gate...
...However, those at feast in the bridegroom's upper room did not need that their hearts be warmed or lifted up...
...Almost he forgot that he was not like other men...
...It was the bride's folk who needed comforting...
...The developments of the past few years indicate a closer relationship between farming and industry...
Vol. 10 • September 1929 • No. 18
