SUMMER REST (CLASSIC REPRINT)

Excerpt from Summer RestBut Spring in the country, 0 season rightly named I - a goddess-queen glides through the heavens, and the earth and all that is therein springs up to meet her and do Obeisance. We, gross and heavy, blind and deaf, are slow to catch the flutter of her robes, the music of her footfall, the odor of her breath, the brightness of her far Off coming. We call it cold and winter still. We huddle about the fires and wonder if the spring will never come, and all the while, 10, the spring is herel Ten thousand watching eyes, ten thou sand waiting ears, laid along the ground, have signalled the royal approach, Ten thousand times ten thousand voices sound the notes of preparation. every tiny sleeping germ of animal and Of vege table life springs to its feet, wide awake, girded for duty, vigilant but unhurried, eager, active, and most orderly. N owfiyou must be Wide awake too, or you will miss the sights.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works._,