The yellow book: an illustrated quarterly (2.1894)

My Study

By Alfred Hayes

et others strive for wealth or praise

I count myself füll blest, if He,
Who made my study fair to see,
Grant me but length of quiet days

Its walls, with peach and cherry clad,

Unbosomed, seem as if thereon
September sunbeams ever shone ;
They make the air look warm and glad

Around its door a clematis

Her arms doth tie ;
Through leafy lattices I view
Its endless corridors of blue
Curtained with clouds ; its ceiling is

Who care to win ;

To muse therein.

From yonder wold

When winds are cold.

The marbled sky.

A verdant