. In God's out-of-doors. Natural history. liness. Some places, the silver of the stream gushes a fountain which glasses the hillside and the far-off sky. How it clatters like a busy street, or laughs cheerily like some sunshiny heart, and runs over pebbles, saying, "I go—but I tell not whither," and stays not a moment; for the hill is steep, but running like one who hears a friend calling, fills its woodland path with merry voices leaving sweet echoes when itself is gone, and a memory in my heart more lasting than these echoes in this shady wood. Other rivulets hide themselves as in
. In God's out-of-doors. Natural history. liness. Some places, the silver of the stream gushes a fountain which glasses the hillside and the far-off sky. How it clatters like a busy street, or laughs cheerily like some sunshiny heart, and runs over pebbles, saying, "I go—but I tell not whither," and stays not a moment; for the hill is steep, but running like one who hears a friend calling, fills its woodland path with merry voices leaving sweet echoes when itself is gone, and a memory in my heart more lasting than these echoes in this shady wood. Other rivulets hide themselves as in modesty. You. SUNRISE ON THE RIVER can not see whence they come; but they are come. Invisible threads of silver are braided to make this rivulet, and it whispers along its way, and if you will hear its voices you must lean down on the mossy bank it loves, lean and grow glad; for sweet as a child's kiss in the sleepy night is the voice of this silver thread of waters. Such dainty minstrelsy i have not heard since 1 lay in New England hills. One thing only is lacking here, just one; these brooks do not lose themselves in a tangle of roots and grasses, and then dash out suddenly a sweet surprise; but covetous would he be who would demand more than is here. The 116. 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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