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roots, nor the hoary waste of time, or searing thunder- 

 stroke, on sapless branches. Continual morning for 

 them, and in them ; they themselves an Aurora, purple 

 and cloudless, stayed on all the happy hills. That shall 

 be our name for them, in the flushed Phoenician colour of 

 their height, in calm or tempest of the heavenly sea ; 

 how much holier than the depth of the Tyrian ! And 

 the queen of them on our own Alps shall be ' Aurora 

 Alpium. ' * 



13. There is one word in the Miltonian painting of 

 them which I must lean on specially ; for the accurate 

 English of it hides deep morality no less than botany. 

 ' With hair implicit. ' The interweaving of complex 

 band, which knits the masses of heath or of Alpine rose 

 into their dense tufts and spheres of flower, is to be noted 

 both in these, and in stem structure of a higher order 

 like that of the stone pine, for an expression of the in- 

 stinct of the plant gathering itself into protective unity, 

 whether against cold or heat, while the forms of the trees 

 which have no hardship to sustain are uniformly based 

 on the effort of each spray to separate itself from its fel- 

 lows to the utmost, and obtain around its own leaves the 

 utmost space of air. 



In vulgar modern English, the term ' implicit ' used 

 of Trust or Faith, has come to signify only its serenity. 

 But the Miltonian word gives the reason of serenity : 



* * Aurora Regina, ' chauged from Rhododendron Ferrugineum. 



