Of Discovery & Destiny: An Anthology of American Writers and the American LandRobert C. Baron, Elizabeth Darby Junkin An anthology of poetry, short stores, and excerpts from longer works about the American experience of the land and nature by a variety of American authors past and present. |
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... Night on the Great Beach " ur fantastic civilization has fallen out of touch with many aspects of nature , and with none more completely than with night . Primitive folk , gathered at a cave mouth round a fire , do not fear night ; they ...
... Night on the Great Beach " ur fantastic civilization has fallen out of touch with many aspects of nature , and with none more completely than with night . Primitive folk , gathered at a cave mouth round a fire , do not fear night ; they ...
Page 99
... night , who have never even seen night . Yet to live thus , to know only artificial night , is as absurd and evil as to know only artific- ial day . Night is very beautiful on this great beach . It is the true other half of the day's ...
... night , who have never even seen night . Yet to live thus , to know only artificial night , is as absurd and evil as to know only artific- ial day . Night is very beautiful on this great beach . It is the true other half of the day's ...
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... night . As I walk toward it , I see the lantern , now as a star of light which waxes and wanes three mathematic times , now as a lovely pale flare of light behind the rounded summits of the dunes . The changes in the at- mosphere change ...
... night . As I walk toward it , I see the lantern , now as a star of light which waxes and wanes three mathematic times , now as a lovely pale flare of light behind the rounded summits of the dunes . The changes in the at- mosphere change ...
Contents
John and Mildred Teal Life and Death of the Salt Marsh | 14 |
Hal Borland High Wide and Lonesome | 30 |
William W Warner Beautiful Swimmers | 48 |
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