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Title: Under the trees
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Mabie, Hamilton Wright, 1846-1916
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead and Co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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this distance a vast and softened shadowagainst the stainless sky. To the east onesees the long uplands, with slender spiresrising here and there from clustered homes;to the south, a vast stretch of fertile fields,rolling like a fruitful sea to the horizon ;within the mighty circle, groups of lowerhills, wooded valleys shadowy and mysteri-ous in the distance, villages and scatteredhomes. It was a deep saying of Goethes thaton every height there lies repose. ASabbath stillness and solemnity reign inthis upper sphere, where the sound ofhuman toil never comes and the cry ofhumanity never penetrates. The boundariesthat confine and baffle the vision along thewalks of ordinary life have all faded out;great States lie together in this outlookwithout visible lines of division or separa-tion. The obstacles to sight which hourlybaffle and confuse are gone; from horizonto horizon all things are clear and visible,and the world is vast and beautiful to itsremotest boundaries. The repose which121
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