Excerpt: ...they sing? The more is the pity that any human being could be happy enough to sing so long as he was a slave in any thought or fibre of his nature. Sometimes it is through the after-math of fat wheat-fields, where float like myriad little nets of silver gauze the webs of the crafty weavers, and where a whole world of winged small folk flit from tree-top to tree-top of the low weeds. They are all mine-these Kentucky wheat-fields. After the owner has taken from them his last sheaf I come in and gather my harvest ...
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Excerpt: ...they sing? The more is the pity that any human being could be happy enough to sing so long as he was a slave in any thought or fibre of his nature. Sometimes it is through the after-math of fat wheat-fields, where float like myriad little nets of silver gauze the webs of the crafty weavers, and where a whole world of winged small folk flit from tree-top to tree-top of the low weeds. They are all mine-these Kentucky wheat-fields. After the owner has taken from them his last sheaf I come in and gather my harvest also-one that he did not see, and doubtless would not begrudge me-the harvest of beauty. Or I walk beside tufted aromatic hemp-fields, as along the shores of softly foaming emerald seas; or past the rank and file of fields of Indian-corn, which stand like armies that had gotten ready to march, but been kept waiting for further orders, until at last the soldiers had gotten tired, as the gayest will, of their yellow plumes and green ribbons, and let their big hands fall heavily down at their sides. There the white and the purple morning-glories hang their long festoons and open to the soft midnight winds their elfin trumpets. This year as never before I have felt the beauty of the world. And with the new brightness in which every common scene has been apparelled there has stirred within me a need of human companionship unknown in the past. It is as if Nature had spread out her last loveliness and said: "See! You have before you now all that you can ever get from me! It is not enough. Realize this in time. I am your Mother. Love me as a child. But remember! such love can be only a little part of your life." Therefore I have spent the month restless, on the eve of change, drawn to Nature, driven from her. In September it will be different, for then there are more things to do on my small farm, and I see people on account of my grapes and pears. My malady this August has been an idle mind-so idle that a letter from Georgiana seems its main...
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Good. 1914 Macmillan hardcover; creme colored letters and design on red cover; letters on spine faded; tear in first two pages; no writing or tears in text.
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Good. Ex-library with only very light wear but usual library markings (label at foot of spine, "withdrawn" stamp on top edge, card pocket remnant on rear endpaper, library stamp & corner clipped on front free endpaper) o/w a very nice, solid and clean copy---Ridgewood, NJ: The Gregg Press 1968, illustrated boards, hardcover, 138pp, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 SERIES-Americans in Fiction Series NOTES-Reprint of 1899 Harper Bros. edition.
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