For a class project in ENGL 208 Children's Literature, we were asked to select a poem for children or young adults and "illustrate" it on the page to appeal to young readers.

1. Are you bowed down in heart?
Do you but hear the clashing discords and the din of L I F E?
Then come away, come to the peaceful wood,
Here bathe your soul in silence. Listen! Now,
From out the p a l p i t a t i n g solitude
Do you not catch, yet faint, elusive strains?
above
They are , around, within YOU, e v e r y w h e r e .
Silently listen! Clear, and still more clear, they come.
up
They bubble in rippling notes, and swell in singing tones.
Now let your soul run the w h o l e gamut of the wondrous scale
Until, responsive to the tonic chord,
It touches the diapason of God’s G R A N D cathedral organ,
Filling earth for you with heavenly peace
And holy harmonies.