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Chapter 12 - 12 - Sky Picture

The sky is a picture

A picture is the sky,

The lake is a mirror

A mirror is the lake;

An elm is a cumulus.

Cumulus congestus is the elm.

A daffodil in March is the onset

of Spring.

The Ash is in leaf before Spring sweeps

into Summer.

Aster Violetta unfolds her regality

after the transition from August to

September.

Whilst Autumn,

Winter and most of

Spring are never without the marbled

gloves or intense bonnets of dancing

Cyclamen.

A sky is a picture,

The picture is a sky,

The lake is a mirror;

A mirror of the sky.

Between the deep emerald mounds

of a pair of hills,

Rises a Third more

distinct,

More blue.

A distant hill with more glaucous

topiary?

Or a cloud with more affinity to the

emerald crests than its sky-sailing

cousins?

Look at a silver lake and see

an overcast sky.

Gaze at an azure sea;

And spy a field of gull sailing

sapphire.

A sky is a picture.

The picture is a sky.