American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects (1889)
Montgomery, Walter · Boston, E.W. Walker & co · leaf 447
■■)•■-/~t^?-fpj®§^: The Cricket. Drawn by Hayden. When friends draw near with the lamps alight;And I tell my tales in the humblest cot.And sing of the joys that are half forgot.For though only a cricket chirping away,In the fading light of an autumn day,I come and go with my song of cheer,To hush… … A most satisfactory example of his landscape work is the engraving of a train passingthrough the fields, which shows that, after all, the march of science and the spread of asordid utilitarianism has not yet spoilt Nature; and that even if it should be impossible for
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