A journey to nature . She is as austere as a Puritan,in her duty, and never by any possibility botherswith sentimentalism. We always bring that non-sense to her in our kits and our albums. Shestands up to her work with a rigid invincibilitythat makes an aesthete shiver, and offers up her off-spring as unquestioningly as did Abraham, and sowell drilled are all her countless myriads thatthere is not a blade of grass hidden from the eyethat does not strive as hard as it can to live anddie for something other than itself So it was, that in the smoky confines of ourfar-away hut, swept by bleak stor
A journey to nature . She is as austere as a Puritan,in her duty, and never by any possibility botherswith sentimentalism. We always bring that non-sense to her in our kits and our albums. Shestands up to her work with a rigid invincibilitythat makes an aesthete shiver, and offers up her off-spring as unquestioningly as did Abraham, and sowell drilled are all her countless myriads thatthere is not a blade of grass hidden from the eyethat does not strive as hard as it can to live anddie for something other than itself So it was, that in the smoky confines of ourfar-away hut, swept by bleak storms or shone onby yellow sunshine, Charlie and I sat throughthe seasons, humbly, like the squirrels that weoften heard under our floor, playing at bowls with 107 A JOURNEY TO NATURE their hickory nuts. We were learning to waitand getting strong and calm with the sure Balmof Gileadj for the time when we were to sallyforth and take up our fight uncomplainingly andfaithfully, like the dumb friends we were to 108
Size: 1534px × 1628px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, bookidjourneytonat, bookyear1903
