







this distance a vast and softened shadow 

 against the stainless sky. To the east one 

 sees the long uplands, with slender spires 

 rising 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 lower 

 hills, wooded valleys shadowy and mysteri- 

 ous in the distance, villages and scattered 

 homes. 



It was a deep saying of Goethe's that 

 "on every height there lies repose." A 

 Sabbath stillness and solemnity reign in 

 this upper sphere, where the sound of 

 human toil never comes and the cry of 

 humanity never penetrates. The boundaries 

 that confine and baffle the vision along the 

 walks of ordinary life have all faded out ; 

 great States lie together in this outlook 

 without visible lines of division or separa- 

 tion. The obstacles to sight which hourly 

 baffle and confuse are gone ; from horizon 

 to horizon all things are clear and visible, 

 and the world is vast and beautiful to its 

 remotest boundaries. The repose which 

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