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now we emerge from the holly shade , to receive from the genius of classical mythology a brief and bright farewell . The sight is dazzling . There is the day-god ' s blazing car , and his fiery-footed steeds on the gallop . In their mad speed they are dashing huge masses of light and flame all over the horizon . The river here is
wide and still as a lake . What strange splendours are in that mirror . How distinct , yet how idealized is every reflection on its surface . There , from the trees in shade are , cold , graceful , fantastic , the pillars of the quiet grotto of the water-god . And there , from the intervals of the opposite trees , behind which the sun is descending , are the flaming columns of Apollo ' s own palace .
* Regia Solis erat suhlimibus alta colurnnae , Clara micante auro flammasque imitante pyropo . ' The gorgeous show is over ; it fades away ; and twilight in her ' gown of sober grey , ' bids us also depart in peace . Sweet twilight , sweet alike on this gentle park-land , and on the wild common which now we enter , through an avenue of gorse which may
be called majestical . The bushes are six feet high , and covered over with blossoms which this dim light touches with a peculiar softness . It is a welcome sight to eyes that ache with splendour and variety . One knows how the Vizier in the story must have felt , when he stole away from the court , in the dusk of evening , to look on the shepherd garb and crook which belonged to
his boyhood . It were foolish to despise the gorse . Linnaeus never saw it till he came to England ; and the first furze field he came to so touched his feelings , that he kneeled down and blessed heaven for so beautiful a sight . The emotion was worthy of the freat interpreter of nature . What would he have said to this ? f like some fanatics that I know , he had estimated worship in
proportion to its length , and fitted his devotions to the occasion by the rule of three direct , he would have recited the hundred and nineteenth Psalm at least , or the Book of Common Prayer entire . But LinnaBus was a philosopher , and all the better Christian ; his worship was gratitude , brevity of expression best suiting the intensity of feeling .
Tea may be taken any where , or when , that any body pleases who can get it ; I prefer it , after such a walk , within reach , without a walk , of that moonlit wood and valley . Just get within its shelter , a few steps down the declivity , and the air is balmy even for an invalid . Pleasant alternative , of looking at the moonlight through the foliage , or at the valley through the moonlight .
And there is a single nightingale piping at intervals , that one note of call , which , after a few repetitions , goes off in a brief and rapid trill , as one said , so distinctly like < Come—come—come—here he is I And true is the interpretation , for there he is , and a joyous burst of song ; and the melody spreads ; ' another , and another , and another ; * and it gushes up , like a hundred fountains of music , No . 78 . " 2 II
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Local Logic . 425
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1833, page 425, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2616/page/65/
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