106 WITH EARTH AND SKY 
blossom world ended, we could only surmise it. 
The vistas of green paths between rows of redolent 
flowers ended by being swallowed up by the 
bloom. No green road traveled through this 
illimitable world. End was there none to the 
apple blossoms. The only way out of the foam 
of flower was to transcend the world and take 
passage into the blue of the overhead. 
On we went loiteringly, always loiteringly, 
truly. Could a body be so unmannerly as to 
haste in such a house of praise as this? The 
gladness seems like great laughter. Each tree 
was preempted by flowers as the magnolia whose 
flowers come and cover the tree completely or 
ever there is a dream of leaf. And every tree 
was like a nosegay held out in the hand of God 
to be worn at an angel’s heart. 
An auto load of women came into this sanctuary 
of perfumed beauty. Where is it where beauty 
is present that lovely women do not come seeing 
God has made them such lovers of beauty in 
everything except husbands? They seem color- 
blind in men. Goody! But here they were, 
these women younger or older according to their 
age (I think that is admirably put and com- 
promises neither the women nor me), all aglow 
with the wonder of the glory of the apple orchard 
in full flower. And they wanted to cut apple 
branches! I think they would have done it 
without permission. Women have an anarchistic 
strain in their blood though they look so docile. 
