Under the trees . % Chapter XII BESIDE THE RIVER LL day long the riverhas moved through my\p thought as it rolls throughthe landscape spread outat my feet. There itlies, winding for many a mile within theboundaries of this noble outlook; by dayflecked with sails approaching and reced-ing, and at night shining under thefull moon like a girdle of silver, claspingmountains and broad meadow lands in avaried but harmonious landscape. Fromthe point at which 1 look out upon its longcourse, the stream has a setting worthy ofits volume and its history. In the distant! background a mountain range, of no
Under the trees . % Chapter XII BESIDE THE RIVER LL day long the riverhas moved through my\p thought as it rolls throughthe landscape spread outat my feet. There itlies, winding for many a mile within theboundaries of this noble outlook; by dayflecked with sails approaching and reced-ing, and at night shining under thefull moon like a girdle of silver, claspingmountains and broad meadow lands in avaried but harmonious landscape. Fromthe point at which 1 look out upon its longcourse, the stream has a setting worthy ofits volume and its history. In the distant! background a mountain range, of noble? altitude and outline, has to-day an ethereal, , strength and splendour; a slight haze has-ffei^/l,iyl ,<!;i/i/f/y/)/jl obliterated all details, and left the greathills soft and dreamlike in the Septembersunshine; at first sight one waits to see101 /nx
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