Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

[inscription reads] " where a downy raps with business like precision in the top of a dead tree. / To Beech Grove where there is endless wonderful music in the yellow leaves. / Home with difficulty against the streaming sunshine. / January 28, 1915 / Tolstoy: / A friend is good; but Nature is better; she is a friend whom one does not lose even in death; for when one dies he is completely reunited with her” / (From “Tolstoy the Man” by Steiner). "