THE CONIFEROUS FORESTS 
The indistinct contours and delicate 
lights of the drifting vapors and cloud 
forms, as they wander across the trees, 
blend with the serene aspect of the 
forest. At other times the clouds 
gather into banks and lie motionless in 
some valley or rest like a veil upon the 
mountain tops. Wordsworth has d3- 
scribed these effects in his graphic 
way by saying,— 
Far-stretched beneath the many-tinted hills, 
A mighty waste of mist the valley fills, 
A solemn sea! whose billows wide around 
Stand motionless, to awful silence bound : 
Pines, on the coast, through mist their tops 
uprear 
That like to leaning masts of stranded ships 
appear. 
In spring or summer just before sun- 
rise it is very beautiful to see how these 
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