Boggy solitudes of Nantucket . are found inthe boggy lowlands. The beach golden-rod, with its largeorange-yellow, tansy-like fragrant flower-heads, among the bright green lance-shapedleaves, will soon make gay the sand hills andcliffs, in striking contrast to the silvery sheenof the everlasting growing among the bay andsweet fern. Everywhere are wonderful lichens, strange,weird grasses, mosses with reindeer antlersand horns, making clean, inviting beds, whereone can lie and look at the calm, blue skyoverhead, and see the white feathery cloudstake on fantastic shapes, suggestive of build-ing de
Boggy solitudes of Nantucket . are found inthe boggy lowlands. The beach golden-rod, with its largeorange-yellow, tansy-like fragrant flower-heads, among the bright green lance-shapedleaves, will soon make gay the sand hills andcliffs, in striking contrast to the silvery sheenof the everlasting growing among the bay andsweet fern. Everywhere are wonderful lichens, strange,weird grasses, mosses with reindeer antlersand horns, making clean, inviting beds, whereone can lie and look at the calm, blue skyoverhead, and see the white feathery cloudstake on fantastic shapes, suggestive of build-ing delightful castles in the air. In shining groups, each stem a pearly ray, Weird flecks of light within the shadowed wood,They dwell aloof, a spotless Angelus, except the wild birds lay, Awakes these forest nuns; yet night and heads are bent, as if in prayerful touch w^U mar their snow, and tempests rudeDefile; but in the mist fresh blossoms stray From spirit-gardens, just beyond our ken. CHAPTER IX.
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