294 



EXPERIENTIA DOCET. 



clouds, is of frequent occurrence j and on such a day, the solar 

 sphere, as it struggles through the screening mists, seems like 

 the face of the moon at its full, when slightly veiled. Your eye 



FIG. 66." When the glory of the woods is rapidly departing." 



rests upon it without pain. And as observation sharpens your 

 mind, you put to yourself the natural question, Is not the sun 

 farther from the earth at this epoch when it affords us the 



