PURE AND REFLECTED LIGHT 



scribed only in its general features. There are 

 no two days in the year just alike, nor will you 

 ever find one day paralleled or repeated in an- 

 other day. There is a warmth of coloring and 

 light in midsummer and autumn, a bleaching 

 of hues in the spring, a coldness of light in 

 winter ; but these again are only general char- 

 acteristics of the seasons, and do not indicate the 

 infinite changes in each separate day. The va- 

 riety of combinations made by nature can never 

 be tabulated or classified. Night after night 

 one may watch the moon rise watch it riding 

 through clouds, first a dull disk, and then a 

 growing light as it nears the edge of a cloud 

 but the same effect is never repeated ; never 

 the same moon, never the same clouds, air, and 

 coloring. The sun comes up, the sun goes 

 down ; but each morning light sets a different 

 glory upon the eastern sky, and each evening 

 light reveals new iris hues upon the burning 

 western clouds. 



And so with a different radiance for each 

 hour the splendor of the world goes round, 

 night following day, hemispheres of shadow 

 alternating with hemispheres of light. As the 

 earth turns, midnight and noonday slip over its 

 surface. Eevolving around the sun in a slightly 



