The Nuptial Flight 
them the sky is magnificent; and one 
almost might fancy that beneficent spirits, 
waving palm-trees of fire, had swept all 
the light towards the stack, to give the 
workers more time. And the track of 
the palms still remains in the sky. See 
the humble church by their side, over- 
looking and watching them, in the midst 
of the rounded lime trees and the grass of 
the homely graveyard, that faces its native 
ocean. ‘They are fitly erecting their mon- 
ument of life underneath the monuments 
of their dead, who made the same gestures 
and still are with them. Take in the 
whole picture. There are no special, 
characteristic features, such as we find in 
England, Provence, or Holland. It is 
the presentment, large and ordinary 
enough to be symbolic, of a natural and 
happy life. Observe how rhythmic 
human existence becomes in its useful 
moments. Look at the man who is 
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