Arcadian Days American Landscapes in Nature And Art
The book Arcadian Days American Landscapes in Nature And Art was written by author William Howe Downes Here you can read free online of Arcadian Days American Landscapes in Nature And Art book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Arcadian Days American Landscapes in Nature And Art a good or bad book?
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The birds are fairly outdoing themselves in the exuberance of their carols. From the trees and bushes and from the eaves of the house there is a smart and rhythmical dripping. The rain has passed ; all is clean and cool ; Nature emerges from her bath, sparkling, refreshed, rejuvenated. Over in the south the storm can be seen pur- suing its progress out to sea. It is grand to watch the sight-outrunning lightning in its gambols over the water, now that it has retired to a safe distance. The sun s...ets, night falls, and in the darkness of the evening the specta- cle becomes more vivid and marvellous. A vast rack of cumulus clouds, upheaved in bulg- ing masses, with towering alabaster domes, overhangs the horizon, and stands out momen- tarily in perfect distinctness as "Jove's light- nings, the precursors o' the dreadful thunder- claps," illuminate it with a pink light. The play of the flashes is almost incessant, for several storms are raging out there at once. The rosy lines leap from dome to dome, or, more often, dive from some lofty cloud-summit 98 ARCADIAN DAYS.
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