OF RICHARD JEFFERIES 



ALL things reposed but man, 

 and man is so busy with his 

 L vulgar aims that it quite 

 dawns upon many people as a wonder- 

 ful surprise how still nature is on a 

 Sunday morning. Nature is absolutely 

 still every day of the week, and proceeds 

 with the most absolute indifference to 

 days and dates.—' Field and Hedgerow ' : 

 The Country Sunday. 



THE beautiful swallows, be ten- 

 der to them, for they symbol 

 all that is best in nature and 

 all that is best in our hearts. — 'Field 

 and Hedgerow': Swallow-Time. 



THE light is never the same on a 

 landscape many minutes to- 

 gether, as all know who have 

 tried, ever so crudely, to fix the fleeting 

 expression of the earth with pencil. It 

 is ever changing, and in the same way 



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