44 Outlook to Nature 



far into the night, and morning is becoming 

 obsolete. I know that this cannot be helped; 

 but it can be mentioned. 



I have asked person after person whether he 

 ever saw the sun rise. The large number have 

 said no ; and most of those who had seen the sun 

 rise had seen it against their will and remembered 

 it with a sense of weariness. Here, again, our 

 farm boy has the advantage : he leads some- 

 thing like a natural life. I doubt whether a 

 man can be a poet if he has not known the 

 sunrise. 



The sky is the one part of the environment 

 that is beyond our reach. We cannot change 

 it; we cannot despoil it; we cannot paint signs 

 on it. The sky is forever new and young; 

 the seasons come out of it ; the winds blow out 

 of it ; the weather is born from it : 



"Hast thou entered the treasuries of the snow, 

 Or hast thou seen the treasuries of the hail ? " 



The high -places. 



I preach the mountains, and everything that 

 is taller than a man. 



