PURE AND REFLECTED LIGHT 
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scribed only in its general features. There are 
no two days in the year just alike, nor will you 
ever find one day paralleled or repeated in an- 
other day. There is a warmth of coloring and 
light in midsummer and autumn, a bleaching 
of hues in the spring, a coldness of light in 
winter ; but these again are only general char- 
acteristics of the seasons, and do not indicate the 
infinite changes in each separate day. The va- 
riety of combinations made by nature can never 
be tabulated or classified. Night after night 
one may watch the moon rise—watch it riding 
through clouds, first a dull disk, and then a 
growing light as it nears the edge of a cloud— 
but the same effect is never repeated ; never 
the same moon, never the same clouds, air, and 
coloring. The sun comes up, the sun goes 
down ; but each morning light sets a different 
glory upon the eastern sky, and each evening 
light reveals new iris hues upon the burning 
western clouds. 
And so with a different radiance for each 
hour the splendor of the world goes round, 
night following day, hemispheres of shadow 
alternating with hemispheres of light. As the 
earth turns, midnight and noonday slip over its 
surface. Revolving around the sun ina slightly 
The great 
variety. 
The count- 
less changes. 
