. In God's out-of-doors. Natural history. heart on many a dark night in winter, when the wind whistled and shivered, and the shutters slammed against the house in dismal din. And i have gathered golden-rod on the heights of Quebec, hard by where brave Wolfe fell, and down the St. Lawrence toward the northern sea, and on Mt. Desert Island, neighboring the rocky cliffs and melan- choly pines, and beside beautiful Champlain and back in the Adiron- dacks where the world seemed removed across some wide, wide sea, and in the Rockies where the continent billowed toward the skies, and the crest forgot
. In God's out-of-doors. Natural history. heart on many a dark night in winter, when the wind whistled and shivered, and the shutters slammed against the house in dismal din. And i have gathered golden-rod on the heights of Quebec, hard by where brave Wolfe fell, and down the St. Lawrence toward the northern sea, and on Mt. Desert Island, neighboring the rocky cliffs and melan- choly pines, and beside beautiful Champlain and back in the Adiron- dacks where the world seemed removed across some wide, wide sea, and in the Rockies where the continent billowed toward the skies, and the crest forgot to sink, and along the Great Lakes where the billows call like a sea, and on the fringe of the great desert with its parched lips and cheeks where fever burns forever, and along the Wabash with its stately tulip-trees and sycamores, beautiful as the pillars of the Parthenon, and along the Sacramento as it widens seaward, beside the Potomac as it stops a moment tenderly to lave the bank on whose sloping side Wash- ington lies buried, and on the Hudson when the Palisades were all in conflagration in autumn days, and on my own beloved prairies stretching mile on mile through Indian summer haze—so widely have I gathered the golden-rod, and reverently hope 1 may be commissioned to gather its golden sprays in heaven; so shall 1 feel quite at Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Quayle, William A. (William Alfred), 1860-1925. Cincinnati, Jennings & Pye; New York, Eaton & Mains
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