Scribner's magazine . ing themselvesslowly together over the lovely water is steel-blue—a hard andchilling hght reflected from its fretfulwavelets. White cat-boats and sloopsanchored near by bob briskly with thedesultoiT rise and fall of the breeze-roughened water. There are faint redlights struggling with the coming ob-scurity and the dying daylight on GoatIsland. Fort Adams is a dark and notunromautic mass of sombre lateral ex-tension. The cold has blended all col-ors into a harmony of frigid objects—the City ^^llarf, withan unloading coal-schooner alongside ;Alge
Scribner's magazine . ing themselvesslowly together over the lovely water is steel-blue—a hard andchilling hght reflected from its fretfulwavelets. White cat-boats and sloopsanchored near by bob briskly with thedesultoiT rise and fall of the breeze-roughened water. There are faint redlights struggling with the coming ob-scurity and the dying daylight on GoatIsland. Fort Adams is a dark and notunromautic mass of sombre lateral ex-tension. The cold has blended all col-ors into a harmony of frigid objects—the City ^^llarf, withan unloading coal-schooner alongside ;Algers and Groffs rickety piers ; thevast white mass of an Old Colonysteamboat lying next the end of LongWliarf ; the chimney of the toi-j^jedostation on Goat Island—take on a ro-mantic aspect as the accidents of apurely artistic and immaterial hour or two later the boat leaves forNew York. It is as hard to take it andleave this permanently enchanted spot,as if the season were midsummer. \ :l \ • J^i-^. A-^ ifmuK/^ A BALLAD OF CROSSING THE BROOK. Bv Charles G. D. Roberts. Illustrations by F. H. Kaemmekeu. Oh, it was a dainty maid that went a-Mayingf in themorn,A dainty, dainty maiden of ways she took were merry and the ways sliemissed forlorn ;And the lau^hino- water tinkled to the sea. 4 . The little leaves above her loved the dainty, ilaiuty ^ maid ; The little winds they kissed her, every one ; At the nearing of her little feet the flowers were not afraid ; And the water lay a-whimpling in the XVI.—16 158 A BALLAD OF CROSSIXG THE BROOK ^ ^
Size: 1292px × 1933px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1880, bookpublishernewyo, bookyear1887
