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Show The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are always inaccessible; but all natural object make a kindred impression, when the min is open to their influence. Nature neve wears a mean appearance. Neither doe the wisest man extort all her secret, an lose his curiosity by finding out all he perfection. Nature never became a toy t a wise spirit. The flowers, the animals, th mountains, reflected all the wisdom of hi best hour, as much as they had delighte the simplicity of his childhood ‘Whe we spea of nature in this manner we have a distinct but most poetical sens in the mind. We mean the integrity of impression made by manifold natural objects It is this which distinguishes the stick o timber of the wood-cutter, from the tree o the poet. The charming landscape whic I saw this morning, is indubitably made u of some twent or thirt farms Mille owns this field, Lock that, and Mannin the woodlan But none of the own beyond the landscape. Ther is a propert in the horizon which no ma has but h whose eye can integrate all the parts, tha is, the poet. This is the best part of thes 1 Digtal Image ©) 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah, All rghts reserved |
