THE COUNTRY.


 THE RIVER.
 A league of grass, washed by a slow, broad stream
 That, stirred with languid pulses of the oar,
 Waves all its lazy lilies, and creeps on."
T HE yellow current of the St. John's River
 lies against the sky in a great curve to-
wards the north; the farther shore is so low
and flat and dim, in the flooding light, that it