DAYS IN MY GARDEN 



WHAT CHANGEABLE 

 WEATHER GIVES US 



EFFECT OF SUNLIGHT 



ON THE SEA 



It gives us the threatening stillness before the 

 coming storm, the lights of leaden skies, the majestic 

 magnificence of booming tempest and mighty roaring 

 winds, the splendour of the fleecy floating cumulus 

 cloud, the crisp pattering noise of rain on many 

 leaves. Those driving mists, whose filmy wisps 

 curtain the mountain steeps and mould anew their 

 towering crests, and swathe their crags in a vast 

 wind-borne veil of gossamer ; then kissed by the down- 

 ward sunlight beam a golden bar dropped down 

 through storm-rift clouds melt away and fade to 

 thinnest air. 



A thousand diamonds flash on the blue-green 

 waves as they lift and toss uneasily, now lashed in 

 heaving dulness and dashing their crested whiteness 

 against the black wet rocks and hissing in anger at 

 thus being kept in bounds. We see the slanting sun- 

 shaft, like a mighty sword, thrust its gleaming bright- 

 ness through the distant dove-grey sea fog, piercing 

 its shadowy patches and, striking the sullen bosom 

 of the ocean, reveal a shield, lighted with the fires 

 of opal. Over the fertile valley, studded with a 

 myriad of rounded tree-tops, cloud-shadows race, 



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