IN STORM AND SHINE 61 



Tompkins time or establish a new record," says : 

 " Switzerland might be made one of the most 

 exquisite schools of every sense of beauty, one of 

 the most pathetic schools of spiritual wonder." 

 And Mr. Harrison is right : this school exists, and 

 is no mere fiction wrought of sentimental thinking. 

 Nor is it ever closed to students — although there 

 be periods when the attendance is lamentably 

 slack. We know that its doors stand wide open 

 in the winter and in the summer ; let it be 

 known, and as well known, that they stand equally 

 wide open in the spring. Let it be known, 

 moreover, that in spite sometimes of fickle, fitful 

 weather, it is in the spring, above all other 

 seasons, that this school is " one of the most 

 exquisite schools of every sense of beauty, one of 

 the most pathetic schools of spiritual wonder." 



Then once again, 



" The sunlight, leaping from the Heights, 

 Flames o'er the fields of May, 



And butterflies and insect mites, 

 Born with the new-blown day, 

 Cross fires in shifting opal lights 

 From spray to beckoning spray," 



