A NATURE NOTE-BOOK 61 



poetry to find the pages scattered over with 

 flowers. 



The capacity to enjoy color and the mys- 

 terious beauty of changing light increases as 

 the months go by. You will not only note 

 the color of one tiny Harebell but your Na- 

 ture Notes will be so written that whenever you 

 read them you will see again the open hillside 

 or the steep and rocky bank, blue with the 

 most elusive blue in Nature. You will see the 

 fragile flowers bending to the sweeping wind 

 and swinging in the gentle breezes until again 

 you almost hold your breath to catch their 

 magic tinkle. You never did quite catch the 

 sound, did you? The world was never quite 

 still enough; but as you held the lovely bells 

 and peeped into their wonderful chalice depths, 

 surely the music of Browning's poetry rang in 

 your ears 



"And her eyes are dark and humid like the depth on 



depth of lustre 

 Hidi'theharehell." 



And you will never see Harebells again with- 

 out remembering how Browning saw them and 

 set his thoughts to music. 



