American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects (1889)
Montgomery, Walter · Boston, E.W. Walker & co · leaf 470
gaze upon the same blue sky, and see its image in the same glassywater. Peirce also visited Derbyshire, where he painted Haddon Hall, and made an excursionto Scotland. Among the pictures brought back from the land of the mountain and the flood,was one showing a clear sunset after a shower, in a… … Who has made dry all the cool, shady places,Where my little brook used to ripple and play? I coaxed the brook off, said fiery-breathed August,In soft, little mist-clouds it floated away. Who has turned yellow and brown ray green pastures ?Who has been bleaching my green sea of wheat! I ripened the…
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