TREE BOLES 



significant weight, then gaze aloft among the mighty 

 limbs of a giant oak, see where the monster thrusts 

 its huge outspreading arms far out, to carry and 

 support a thousand subdivisions of its 'kneed' 

 branches ; watch the upward swaying lift as the gentle 

 breeze caresses and you will marvel at its colossal 

 strength; think then what it must be to sustain the 

 full force of the roaring gale. Look at the wondrous 

 balance and spacing of the eyeless limbs, as their 

 tapered shafts extend; and this is all achieved with 

 never-failing grace and beauty. We marvel at the 

 germ, that tiny seed, from which it sprang : no hollow 

 beneath the spreading limbs of used-up soil is seen, 

 built, it would almost seem, of air and dew and light 

 and Heaven's Will. One of Nature's grandest master- 

 pieces : thus skilfully she works combining great 

 strength, utility and perfect beauty, a task wherein 

 man most surely fails. 



We are accustomed to connect gracefulness with a 

 certain slowness of movement, at any rate in human 

 beings. The graceful woman usually moves slowly, 

 the graceful dance charms with its slow rhythm, and 



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