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Excerpt from My Devon Year
Many a morning brings with it some echo of human emotion so obvious that the analogy strikes instant, almost unconscious, acknowledgment from all, and mankind sighs before a leaden dawn, or lifts his heart with gladness to a sunrise of promise but more often the diurnal progress is intermixed with subtler manifestations, and the brooding guardian-spirit of each day must be sought for with a measure of rever ence and care. Then if your mind is Open to such forces, if the key of your heart is surrendered to natural in?uences, like a dream the secret of the day Shall grow upon you, and there shall develop a sort of inner certainty spun of the sky and the things under the sky. Be the day all blue; be the day all gold; be the day sad and sobbing - a theatre of mad winds, that shake the roof -tree and smite things animate and inanimate to destruction - yet secrets it surely holds; and the brain of man shall win them, shall weave a definite subjective inspiration from the objective revelation of the hour. Thus Nature crowns suit and service at her courts, sometimes with a sort of lyric joy that lifts the heart upon its ebb and ?ow before her glories, sometimes with full measure of grief at her failure, and not seldom with gravity when we behold the eternal destruction of her unfit.
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