32 HURRAH! FOE THE COUNTRY! 



sive towers and arched gateway. Such are the forms which 

 fancy gives to these forest things, in the doubtful twilight 

 of a. summer evening. While we have been looking upon 

 these unsubstantial shadows, the sunlight has left the moun- 

 tain peaks, the stars have come out in the sky, and the moon 

 has started on her course across the heavens. 



Let us rest on our oars a moment, here in the bay, to 

 view the scenery around us, as seen by the mellow moon- 

 light. So calm, so still, so motionless are both air and water, 

 that we seem suspended between the sky above, sparkling 

 and glowing with millions of bright stars, and the moon rid- 

 ing gloriously on her course, and a sky beneath, sparkling 

 and glowing with like millions of bright stars, and the same 

 moon, or its counterpart, floating away down in fathomless 

 depths below us. See, how the same hillside, the same line 

 of forest trees, the same ranges and mountain peaks are 

 reflected back from the stirless bosom of the lake. There, 

 above, and just on the upper line of that tall peak, looming 

 darkly and majestically in the distance, hangs a brilliant star, 

 sparkling and twinkling, like the sheen of a diamond ; and 

 right beneath, away down just as far below the surface of 

 the water as mountain peak and star are above it, is another 







mountain peak and bright star, twinned by the mirrored 

 waters. See, away down the lake, that little island with its 

 half dozen spruce trees, clustered together ! How like a 

 great war vessel it looks, with sails all set, as seen by the 

 uncertain light of the moon. And that other island, off to 

 the left, with the dead and barkless trees, how like a tall 



