STRAIGHT LINES 



IT is difficult to make straight lines beautiful 

 and it is but seldom that Nature uses them in any 

 considerable number or length, rather she loves to 

 bend and curve or effect completeness in the circle 

 and the sphere. The apparently straight lines of the 

 stems of the firs and larch are found to have a grace- 

 ful taper, furnished with their concave branches of 

 sweeping curve. From the nodes of the scarcely 

 lessening bamboo stem break clouds of delicate light 

 foliage, obliterating all straightness, and there is an 

 enchanting beauty in the exquisitely plumed head 

 crowning the straight palm-tree bole, making it a 

 unique and perfect picture. 



Think how Nature paints the summer sky of blue, 



pale blue for winter skies have deeper shades and THE SEA SHORE 



richer tones that frames the spreading downs, 

 which rise and fall to dip and fold, to where lies 

 the land's crumbling fringe of bold grey rocks, lapped 

 by the waves of the sea, ever restless, yet ever 

 beautiful. 



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