Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-06-12
IN THE LONELINESS or JUNE.

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the world, smiles gently and blandly.
yet there Is ever enough OF GOODNESS
to tempt the delicious sweetness OF
the ~tuvenescent heritage and the
abundant LEAKAGE Of the trees. June,
In all the northern world Is the love-
Hest Of months. but out here In the
Rocky mountains II attains a charm
that not ever h~oneysuckle fragrance
borne on New England bieezes, the
snowy stretches OF Michigan orchards.
or the songful voices Of Kentucky
bobolinks and cardinals a give. Il
There Is much compensation to us
here for the loss Of riotous fragrance
Of mor luxurious lands, Of the sight
Of the laurels now nearing their per.
Tod Of glory on the hills, Of the abund-
antly heartfelt. honest Iris Of the
swales. OF the swamp pink adjoining
the woodsides and riversides with it's
gracious loneliness, OF the linnae on
shaded banks beneath the pine woods,
or swaying It's myriads Of twin bells
on the edges OF the beech forests, Of
the wide flung fruitful fields and
spreading verdant orchards. Yes, we
miss them all, but where the eyes so
blind that cannot read the compensa-
tiOn?
Have you ever gone, when the after.
moor shadows are beginning to length
en-, westward from the city to where
the wooded foothills lift themselves
In un~obstructed view? What an eye
feast Of royal and riot ous coloring
and magnificent outline-deep purple
that dims with the distance Of the
higher peaks, greens that simmer
and change like the play OF sunlight
upon a beautiful garment, woodlands
that pale or gloom as the shadows
chase each other across their face, a
veil Of thin blue haze that tones and
sOftens the whole far picture-and
near. the fair green fields and waving
~trees--above heavens most radiant
and illimitable ~largeness and beauty
and magnifcence Of the whole.
Or have you experienced the mar.
vel of the early morning on the hills?
Few things in nature can be more
wonderful than the progress of the
June day as from the first herald OF
the dawn, the heavens change in
panoramic, yariegated splendor and
the shadows Of the night begin to fee
away. If you have never seen the
day come In this colorful land II will
pay you to sit up all night II need
be to o II.
II you would realize the meaning Of
Infinite peace In nature. you must ex-
perience the solemn hush of the dawn,
when the master artist begins to
clothe this silent land with everbright.
ening glory. when the nigh. sounds
a before the day sounds begin.
while mountain and mesa and city
and woodland and valley are touched
with gray and pink, russell and or
ange and gold. There Is no loneliness
more lovely than the loveliness of the
June dawn In this region.
Dulled must be the soul to these
things that are best worth experien-
cling that fails to give some response
to the June beauties Of this or n
other land. How cordially. year by
year. all these beauties greet u
eyes. caring naught for man, carrying
out ~unknowingly but how grandly IN
infinite purpose. giving how much OF
delight and satisfaction In the assured
life of the earth!
There is something sad about the
loveliness OF June. The youth and
gaiety Of the heritage and forestration
Of the earth are passing: after this
comes the more robust and assartive
beauty as the plant passes from flower
towards fruitage and the fields and
trees face the increasing ardor Of the
lifting sun
Each season has Its own charm end
the charm Of June Is greatest uf all;
still 1t has left behind that magica.
feeling which belongs to spring alone.
II Is the beginnings. also. that are
full of wonder. When the fun lido OF
life flows over the earth. everything
Is accepted and assured because t
must be,
And SO with places and seasons.
You of 1he east or The north or the
south miss the June fragrance and
beauty of dearly-loved and well re
membered things. And You of The
summer and winter and the tall miss
the beginnings and the promise #
spring. II you find no compensation
the fault Is not with natuea wh oh
has layished her hounties In cosaptn-