48 Outlook to Nature 



into the mountain. Gradually a ruddy light 

 appeared in the east. Then a flash of red shot 

 out of the horizon, struck on a point of the sum- 

 mit, and caught from crag to crag and snow to 

 snow until the great mass was streaked and 

 splashed with fire. Slowly the darkness settled 

 away from its base ; a tree emerged ; a bird 

 chirped ; and the morning was born ! 



Now a great nether world began to rise up 

 out of Chaos. Far hills rose first through roll- 

 ing billows of mist. Then came wide forests 

 of conifer. As the panorama arose, the moun- 

 tain changed from red to gold. The stars had 

 faded out and left the great mass to itself on 

 the bosom of the rising world, the mountain 

 fully created now and stablished. Spriggy 

 bushes and little leaves little green-brown 

 leaves and tender tufts of herbs trembled 

 out of the woods. The illimitable circle of the 

 world stretched away and away, its edges still 

 hung in the stuff" from which it had just been 

 fashioned. Then the forest awoke with calls 

 of birds and the penetrating light, and the crea- 

 tion was complete. 



