A WORD PICTURE
The following exquisite little wordpicture comes from the pen of an American writer, Christopher Morley “The brightness was already lifting into upper air; a thin tissue of shadows lay along the valley. Suddenly he became aware (by that unaccountable planetary instinct known to us all) that there was a new moon. Turning, he perceived it, a silver snipping daintily afloat, and near it an early star. He had found no creed in the praver-book that accounted for the stars. Standing on the floor of an ocean of sky we look aloft and see them, mere barnacles, perhaps, on the keel of some greater ship of space. At home he remembered a certain burning twinkle that peeped through the screen of the dogwood tree, flitting to and fro, and appearing and vanishing. At times, watching it from the porch, he had been uncertain whether it was a firefly a few yards away, or a star the. other side of Time. Possibly Truth was like that.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 41, 11 May 1927, Page 14
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167A WORD PICTURE Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 41, 11 May 1927, Page 14
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