Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 34 December 1886 to May 1887 . e in the appearances andprocesses of nature, certain it is that particularkinds of scenery excite definite trainsof thoughtand feeling, as, for example, in the directionof wistfulness, aspiration, or hope, just as theminor music of the autumn wind producesthe sentiment of melancholy. Green pasturesand still waters are to-day and to every onethe essential elements of the typical pictureof peace, just as they were in the sacred poetryof Palestine. A reach of gently rolling meadow, Whereon the nibbling flocks do stray, sloping to
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 34 December 1886 to May 1887 . e in the appearances andprocesses of nature, certain it is that particularkinds of scenery excite definite trainsof thoughtand feeling, as, for example, in the directionof wistfulness, aspiration, or hope, just as theminor music of the autumn wind producesthe sentiment of melancholy. Green pasturesand still waters are to-day and to every onethe essential elements of the typical pictureof peace, just as they were in the sacred poetryof Palestine. A reach of gently rolling meadow, Whereon the nibbling flocks do stray, sloping to the cool borderof a brook which loi-ters here and there to catch the sunlight as it fallsthrough openings in the overhanging foliage,its mantle of closely cropped verdure fittingit so smoothly as to reveal every undulation,and offering a surface texture upon which thevery shadows of the trees delight to rest, isalways a revelation of innocent always brings a sense of restfulness andpeace. It is a picture which not only excludes 912 RIVERSIDE LOOKING UP THE HUDSON FROM CLAREMONT. every suggestion of the want and wretched-ness, the cruelty, oppression, and strife whichsociety acknowledges as its shame, but itsmotive is in refreshing contrast to the devour-ing ambition, the strenuous energy, the eager-ness, the adventure, the s])irit of i)rogress whichthe same civilization boasts of as its distinguish- ing glory. To the imagination it suggests thesimplicity, the dignity, the innocence, the con-servatism, the freedom, the quietness, the con-templative leisure of the ideal pastoral life;and while it possesses the mind it is a signalrelief from the wear and weariness, the strainand pressure, the turbulence and discontent, RIVERSIDE PARK. 913
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