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tunity right at hand for penetrating an 

 untrodden wilderness. With most of us 

 the undiscovered country lies just a step 

 off the beaten track. So across the roll- 

 ing bog and into the twilight greenness 

 beneath the cedars I sailed to-day, ventur- 

 ing as Columbus did over a known sea to 

 an unknown, and thence to a new world, 

 one where straight, limbless cedar trunks 

 stand close like temple columns under a 

 gray-green roof of twigs and leaves. 



All the upper tones are gray and green, 

 for this is the world of the mosses and 

 lichens. The ground is built of them, 

 and the temple columns are so covered 

 with their arabesques and bas-reliefs, so 

 daintily frescoed and carved, that it seems 

 as if here were a museum of all designs 

 for the beautifying of interiors that ever 

 occurred. And as all the tree trunks are 



gray and green till the texture and color 

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