Scribner's magazine . th of blue in the sky and water,and a life-giving, life -stiiring warmthin the sun which fills the soul withgladness ; and when at nightfall thebreeze dies away, and the pink and saf-fron clouds paint themselves upon thepeaceful deep and the silent landscape,what a joy it is to sit and watch thetwilight fade into night, the stars ap-pear, and the light-house beacons comeout like other stars along the still, refreshing, and soothing isthe night ! You only just catch therefrain of the automatic buoy-whistleguarding the Graves, appropnatelyknown as the Melancholy
Scribner's magazine . th of blue in the sky and water,and a life-giving, life -stiiring warmthin the sun which fills the soul withgladness ; and when at nightfall thebreeze dies away, and the pink and saf-fron clouds paint themselves upon thepeaceful deep and the silent landscape,what a joy it is to sit and watch thetwilight fade into night, the stars ap-pear, and the light-house beacons comeout like other stars along the still, refreshing, and soothing isthe night ! You only just catch therefrain of the automatic buoy-whistleguarding the Graves, appropnatelyknown as the Melancholy Bull, telling,from across the Bay, that the storm hasbeen ; and once and again a cool, saltypuff announces the advent of the night-breeze. Now rides the moon, and faraway across her glittering wake glidessome coaster like a phantom this be the ocean which yesterdayseemed so cold and cruel and revenge-ful, as you listened to the roar of thewind upon the roof? Even the Reefof Normans Woe, that poetic sorrow of. The Reef of Normans Woe. the coast, the Mecca of the tourist whovisits Gloucester, has lost its treacher-ous leer, and suggests for a momentto the ever-hopeful soul that naturehas become the slave of man. Suchdays, such nights are the frequent re-curring boon of the dweller by theNorth Shore. Those who regard the continued in-dividual ownership of large tracts ofland, or even of an acreage sufficient tokeep ones neighbor at a respectful dis-tance, as inconsistent with true demo-cratic development, will be likely tolook askance at the beautiful estatesalong the North Shore. It may bethat in a few generations we shall alllive cheek by jowl with one another inhouses built and painted after a stereo-typed model, with exactly the samenumber of square feet of land in ourfront-yards, and under limitations as tothe number of flowers we may grow inour pitiful little gardens, for fear ofseeming to outstrip the luxury of those who are too indolent to grow a period
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