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But on days of drizzle and drifting cloud the keep diminishes, like an amateur drawing half-erased.

But on days of drizzle and drifting cloud the keep diminishes, like an amateur drawing half erased.

With power and longing he hears them open, and is brim full again with the rhythm that collects from the whole face of Nature,—the hillside, the ravine, the drifting cloud, the vapors just arrived from the ocean, the drops that flowers nod with to flavor the stream, the human smiles that colonize both banks of it.

The rustling leaves, the waving grass, a rolling stone, a drifting cloud, the rising moon—all are to them alive, and many of them are to be feared.