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Under the Trees and Elsewhere
Hamilton Wright Mabie
Under the Trees and Elsewhere
Hamilton Wright Mabie
Book Excerpt: ...t climbs long hills, sometimes in a roundabout, hesitating, half-hearted way, and sometimes with an abrupt and breathless ascent; at the summit it seems to pause a moment as if to invite the traveller to survey the splendid domain which it commands. On one side, in such a restful moment, one sees the wide circle of waters, stretching far off to a horizon which rests on clusters of islands and marks the limits of the world; in the foreground, and sweeping around the other points of the compass, a landscape rich in foliage, full of gentle undulations, and dotted here and there with fallow fields, spreads itself like another sea that has been hushed into sudden immutability, and then sown, every wave and swell of it, with the seeds of exhaustless fertility. From such points of eminence as these the road sometimes runs with hurried descent, as if longing for solitude, into the heart of the woodlands, and there winds slowly and solemnly under the overshadowing branches; there are no fences here, and the sha...
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | September 29, 2020 |
ISBN13 | 9798680014608 |
Publishers | Independently Published |
Pages | 120 |
Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 6 mm · 172 g |
Language | English |
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