Tuesday, November 3, 2015

Lovely autumn







Courtesy of Maxfield Parrish...

And the lost delight of slow communication, a letter from George Eliot to Miss Lewis, October 1, 1841

Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love — that makes life and nature harmonize. The birds are consulting about their migrations, the trees are putting on the hectic or the pallid hues of decay, and begin to strew the ground, that one’s very footsteps may not disturb the repose of earth and air, while they give us a scent that is a perfect anodyne to the restless spirit. Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns. 

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