Transcriber’s Note:

The cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.

“Coming up the Trail toward the Daylight.”

In The Christmas Woods
Being the introductory essay of a series on observations of nature through the year

BY
ADELINE KNAPP
Author of “Upland Pastures,” Etc.
With an illustration by William Keith
DONE AT THE PRESS OF
THE STANLEY-TAYLOR COMPANY
San Francisco, California
1899
Copyright, 1899, by
The Stanley-Taylor Company.

RAIN UP THE MOUNTAIN.

Along the serried slopes a white shape creeps,
Through oak-fringed cañon ways, and up the steeps,
A mystery of silent, shrouding deeps;
Like spirit touching earth while Nature sleeps.
It stirs beneath the laurels, stirs within
The redwood’s circling shade, and light and thin,
Where the brown towhee builds, and spiders spin,
Shuts the twist manzanita’s tangle in.
With swaying tops and quivering leaves adart,
Held for a while within the mist’s white heart
Like shadowy travelers ready to depart—
Tall, wavering shapes of eucalyptus start.
From far below, where level spreads the plain;
Traveling with jeweled feet the hastening grain,
Touching the slumbering hills to life again,
Marching along the summits, comes the rain!
OF BEAUTY.

We ought to observe that even the things thatfollow after the things which are produced accordingto nature contain something pleasing and attractive....The ears of corn bending down,and the lion’s eyebrows, and the foam which flowsfrom the mouth of wild boars, and many otherthings—tho they are far from being beautiful if aman should examine them severally—still, becausethey are consequent upon the things which areformed by nature, help to adorn them, and theyplease the mind; so that if a man should have afeeling and deeper insight with respect to the thingswhich are produced in the universe, there is hardlyone of those which follow by way of consequence,which will not seem to him to be in a manner disposedso as to give pleasure.... And in anold woman and an old man he will be able to see acertain maturity and comeliness, and the attractivebeauty of young persons he will be abl

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