J02 UNDER THE TREES. 



form of speech, but still bringing with them in 

 dubitable evidence of their more than royal birth. 

 From time to time, like the elder race of prophets, 

 they enter into our speech and renew the fading 

 sense of the divinity of life, and so, through in 

 dividual souls, the deeper truths are retold from 

 generation to generation. 



As one meditates in this evening hour, the dark 

 ness has gathered over the world and folded it out 

 of sight. The few faint stars have become a 

 shining host, and the immeasurable heavens have 

 substituted for the near and familiar beauty of the 

 earth their own sublime and awful commingling of 

 unsearchable darkness and unquenchable light. So 

 in every human life the near and the familiar is 

 overarched by infinity and eternity. 



