. In God's out-of-doors. Natural history. FOUR SEASONS=-ONE YEAR. HAT the good God of the Out-of-Doors could have made five seasons or six is quite among his possibles, though not of ours ; yet am 1, for one, content that he made us four. That is enough. Four is his sacred number; and sacred the quaternion of the seasons surely is. Think through the four seasons as if your thought were an arrow-flight speeding from spring through summer, autumn, winter into jsoer js x^B^HH^H spring again, and feel how adequate the journey Jl^^r^^^^H^^H was. Spring was birthday, summer love- i ^'*"ir I ct^
. In God's out-of-doors. Natural history. FOUR SEASONS=-ONE YEAR. HAT the good God of the Out-of-Doors could have made five seasons or six is quite among his possibles, though not of ours ; yet am 1, for one, content that he made us four. That is enough. Four is his sacred number; and sacred the quaternion of the seasons surely is. Think through the four seasons as if your thought were an arrow-flight speeding from spring through summer, autumn, winter into jsoer js x^B^HH^H spring again, and feel how adequate the journey Jl^^r^^^^H^^H was. Spring was birthday, summer love- i ^'*"ir I ct^^BwbBB ni^l^'ng' fs" the glow and glory of the day of â ', f T^nifl^l^ life, winter the battle mood and madness. T Iffi^^KK^M Beginning, wooing, enjoying, fighting with a world of foes, what besides is there in life? Four seasons are enough. They engulf the year in their glorious ocean as reefs are swallowed in the high tides that caress and kiss and make tiger springs of furious passion. Four seasonsâI will thank God for that mercy also. They are none too many, not two nor one, but just enough; like the number of children at anybody's house, never one too many. 1 want no climate where the seasons are reduced to two or one. A year-long winter does not suit my thought nor me, nor does a year-long summer. One season to fill the year is too sedate. 1 like not its narcotic ; for it makes the faculties drowse like lotus-eating, whereas Nature, if we are to make much of it, must be watched with undi- minished interest and appetite. A drowsy man might as well be asleep for all the good he gets from company or landscape. Did you ever try to carry your part of a conversation when you were nodding and napped 149. 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. Cin
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