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YOUTH
1. Burzee
Have you heard of the great Forest of Burzee? Nurse used to sing of it when I
was a child. She sang of the big tree-trunks, standing close together, with
their roots intertwining below the earth and their branches intertwining above
it; of their rough coating of bark and queer, gnarled limbs; of the bushy foliage
that roofed the entire forest, save where the sunbeams found a path through
which to touch the ground in little spots and to cast weird and curious
shadows over the mosses, the lichens and the drifts of dried leaves.
The Forest of Burzee is mighty and grand and awesome to those who steal
beneath its shade. Coming from the sunlit meadows into its mazes it seems
at first gloomy, then pleasant, and afterward filled with never-ending delights.
For hundreds of years it has flourished in all its magnificence, the silence of
its inclosure unbroken save by the chirp of busy chipmunks, the growl of wild
beasts and the songs of birds.
Yet Burzee has its inhabitants--for all this. Nature peopled it in the beginning
with Fairies, Knooks, Ryls and Nymphs. As long as the Forest stands it will be
a home, a refuge and a playground to these sweet immortals, who revel
undisturbed in its depths.
Civilization has never yet reached Burzee. Will it ever, I wonder?
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