TREES AT LEISURE 



IF we could know the part 

 that trees have played in 

 the aesthetic education of man, 

 mayhap we should find that 

 they began this great and silent 

 schooling when the savage, 

 weary from his chase in the 

 hot sun, sought refuge in their 

 refreshing shade. While rest- 

 ing there, his eyes raised to the 

 overhanging branches, there 

 may well have come to him an 

 uplift into the vague conscious- 

 ness of a realm of beauty as 

 far above his ken as the branches 

 and shifting leaves were above 



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