The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-12-24

At Snug Down; how life is lived
there. what nature does for human
existence there, and what the thought
there for human happiness under the
shelterfng security of snug sails and
reefs weathering the tempest and
blasts that sweep without mercy
across the unfamthomable and ever
restless ocean Of life.
Morning breaks upon Snug Down
thru the towering pine and oak, aged
sentinels of past which years have
penciled upon the tonnes OF time, the
last of their comrades pointing ever
with their green fingers to the unseen
goal Of human hope at the fall of
destiny.
The first blush of dawn kisses their
sombre outlines and tints with pink
and gold the facets Of each leaf and
branch, and, thru their sturdy ranks
ribbons of sun-ht color are woven in
between.
Less than o league away In Snug
Down. The birds were there before
Snug Down began to exist: with their
love calls thsy sweeten and nature
there long before for the habitatfon OF
a human soul, and in its quiet pre-
cancts their songs are still rendered in
the agony Of passion for absent mates
that touch the divinenesS Of a human
life. to Eadiantly illumne a human
existence.
In the cornradeship Of birds hsf-
man soul was never wrecked upon
the reefs Of crime.
At Snug Down nature Is free. and
eli life Is touched with freedom, the
shackles that gall and chafe the hui
S~rA d. h. aeu7 hoI a
Of men are unknown in the free &C
cess to the love of boundless uni
verse of beauty and tenderness.
There IN calm repose away from hui
man strife the garden smiles. In re-
sponsive soil, kissed by mellow sun
light, and famed by gentle winds.
Nature robs itself to nourish the veg
itation aligned in rows, superbly
fine, tempting the impatient appetite
sharpened by the whiting edge OF
sky and scene and purest air.
Here the life veins are flushed by
the current flow that drinks from ma
lures font the vigor and the JOY that
brand the man.
Along the borders where the vfo-
lets grow the sheen Of purple casts
reflections from the sky; the fragrance
of their incense sends the memory
back to days of grief or joy--e'en tc
the first spring violet of a boy-bui
this concerns the man, his happiness
his life within the silvan shadows Cd
a kind retreat, for at Snug Down the
man and God may meet.
The days at Snug Down seem nost
fair where all of nature weaves ex-
istence with song and fragrance. color
and the wild beauty of tempest, scene
and the threatening madness of the
cloud. FOR these are rhythms stenciling
the human intellect with the har-
of "a
Here we feel the passion of the SOU
swept by natures charm, and tbs
grandure of the everlasting glory o.
the infinite expressions of boundles:
love streaming from the immensely %
all there is above. below, to make The
universe divine.
Here in this snug retreat we feel tn.
soul will range immortal beyond tbs
boundries of all time and Throughout
the cycles of eternity; that in thi.
purgatory of life the cr1slties of mar
are but the limitations Of inhar1noni.
Gus strife to find the equal law. These
are the touch stones of the unseer
all nature and all love that sweeter
life and soul with dfvinely Inspiring
influence.
Here happiness is sought in all tht
good that nature offers from he
bountious store Of sunshine, air anC
scene. that ever yelling force tina
bursts the blossoms Of the mind II
the revelations of great natures law
expressed in myriad colors. forms and
life that teach the ethics of our daily
lives.
Here is the dreamy flight Of but
terf1ies, the simple industry Of thu
bees chasing from flower to flower
the bursting bud, the leaf, the song O
nature in her wild and glorious gle,
attuned to Eolian airs and eagel
winds that kiss the land and stir thu
sea, all these fondle the Imagination