SHECATICA AND JACQUES CARTIER 



layers upon layers of purple and pink clouds 

 against a blue background, while a veil of 

 gray mackerel clouds covered the apex of the 

 vault of the heavens. To the northwest, above 

 the cloud-bank where the sun was hidden, 

 was a clear light-blue sky in which floated 

 fleecy clouds whose colors constantly changed 

 from rose-pink to dark maroon. The weather- 

 beaten houses, the grim, hungry shores, the 

 heaving sea, and fathomless vault of heaven 

 were all transformed and enriched in the glori- 

 ous luminous glow. It is Benson who speaks 

 of a wonderful sunset in its effect on himself 

 as an experience wholly and deeply religious: 

 "And here I am but recording my own experi- 

 ence when I say that the lights and gleams of 

 sunset, its golden inlets and cloud-ripples, the 

 dusky veil it weaves about the world, is for 

 my own spirit the solemnity which effects for 

 me what I believe that the mass effects for the 

 devoted Catholic — the unfolding in hints and 

 symbols of the mysteries of God." In another 

 place he says, "But there are some idealists 

 who find the sense of worship and the conscious- 

 ness of an immortal power ... in the endless 

 loveliness of nature, her seas and streams, her 

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