Symphonie Pathétique
Blankner, Fredericka V.
216 THE COMMONWEAL June 26, 1929 Recommended
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Strayer-Upton Arkhmetics X Pearson and Suzzallo's Essentials of Spelling X Pearson and Kirchwey's New Essentials of English...
...Gold is for the rich...
...I am starving," said the man...
...One day a wayfarer paused to watch a young man standing on the corner, giving away purses of gold...
...But why do you not live in this rich room...
...There was a man who lived in one room...
...I cannot live in the rich room," the man said...
...H: Meno triste ma non troppo...
...It was packed to the brim with gold...
...The man showed the stranger his house--first the room where he lived, which was dark and had noth- ing in it...
...And yet his face is sad--" "Why are you sad when you are rich...
...the stranger asked the young man...
...Because I should like to give," the young man answered...
...A MAN was dying of starvation...
...And I'm not sure there is now," he added...
...The young man shook his head...
...It was adorned with art and radiant with light, and the tables were piled with gold...
...I inherited it...
...One day a stranger called...
...He opened several others and they likewise were full...
...You didn't look...
...III: Scherzo----Allegro e poi non tanto...
...He has given away a dozen basketfuls while I have been watching him...
...216 THE COMMONWEAL June 26, 1929 Recommended Textbooks Strayer-Upton Arkhmetics X Pearson and Suzzallo's Essentials of Spelling X Pearson and Kirchwey's New Essentials of English X Newmayer and Broome's Health and Happiness Series X Brigham and McFarlane's Essentials of Geography X Story Hour Readers X Lewis and Hosic's New Practical English for High Schools X Nyberg's First Course in Algebra Second Course in Algebra X Nyberg's Plane Geometry Solid Geometry X Pearson, Lawrence and Raynor's Latin I AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY New York Cincinnati Chicago Boston Atlanta SYMPHONIE PATHETIQUE By FREDERICKA V. BLANKNER I: Doloroso assai...
...But you have been giving continuously--a purse to everyone who passed...
...But why, when you have gold...
...Gold...
...And he died of starvation...
...Whenever he has given away a basketful of purses, a servant has brought him another great basket...
...But I didn't know about it," said the man...
...I have always been poor...
...Then he opened a door and the stranger looked into another room, more beautiful than any he had ever dreamed, though in his travels he had seen all the palaces of the world...
...I am a poor man...
...Why do you live instead in the poor room that is dark and empty and spend only a single copper...
...The young man is rich," reflected the stranger, "very rich...
...But your shelves are laden with money chestsl" And the stranger dragged forth one of the chests and opened it...
...Oh others, too, have come and told me to look-but I didn't believe there was any...
...A wanderer, happening by, came into his hovel...
...No gold...
...The stranger exclaimed: "But I thought you were a poor man, when instead you must have in this room all the wealth of the kingdom...
...Not II I am a poor man...
Vol. 10 • June 1929 • No. 8
