. Peter Parley's kaleidoscope : or, Parlor pleasure book : consisting of gleanings from many fields of the curious, the beautiful, and the wonderful . THE USES OF ASTRONOMY. 177. M O R K I K G . Such was the glorious spectacle as I entered the train. Aswe proceeded, the timid approach of twilight became more per-ceptible ; the intense blue of the sky began to soften; the smallerstars, like little children, went first to rest; the sister-beams ofthe Pleiades soon melted together : but the bright constellationsof the west and north remained unchanged. Steadily the won-drous transfiguration went
. Peter Parley's kaleidoscope : or, Parlor pleasure book : consisting of gleanings from many fields of the curious, the beautiful, and the wonderful . THE USES OF ASTRONOMY. 177. M O R K I K G . Such was the glorious spectacle as I entered the train. Aswe proceeded, the timid approach of twilight became more per-ceptible ; the intense blue of the sky began to soften; the smallerstars, like little children, went first to rest; the sister-beams ofthe Pleiades soon melted together : but the bright constellationsof the west and north remained unchanged. Steadily the won-drous transfiguration went on. Hands of angels, hidden frommortal eyes, shifted the scenery of the heavens; the glories ofnight dissolved into the glories of the dawn. The blue sky nowturned more softly gray ; the great watch-stars shut up their holyeyes; the east began to kindle. Faint streaks of purple soon12 178 THE USES OF ASTROMOMY blushed along the sky; the whole celestial concave was filledwith theinflowing tides of the morning light, which came pouringdown from above in one great ocean of radiance; till at length,as we reached the Blue Hills, a fla^h of purple fire blazed out fromabove the
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