If, in our moments of idleness and insipidity, we turn to the sky as a lastresource, which of its phenomena do we speak of? One says it lias been wet, and another it lias been w'lndy, and another, it has been warm. Wlio among the whole chattering ciowcl ■'"can tell me or the forms and the precipices of the chain of tall, white mountains that girded the horizon at noon yesterday ? A\ ho saw the liarsunbeam that came- out of the south .and smote upon their summits until they melted and mouldered away in ,a dust of blue rain? Who saw the dance of the dead clouds when the sunlight left them last- night, and the •west winds blew them before it like withered leaves ? All has passed tinregretted at unseen.—John Ruskm.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2429, 18 February 1909, Page 3
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