The Gold Tree: With Initials Designed By Austin O. Spare & Cut in Wood By W. Quick (Classic Reprint)

Gothic windows, very high in the great old building. When the leaves were out there were no roofs or walls within sight, and the room was so high that, seated at my window, I was almost on a level with the uppermost large branches of a vast spreading elm, which stood right over against me and dominated all the other trees in the thickly-wooded gardens. When one was by the farther wall of the room the moving green caves and promontories of the great tree filled the whole space of the window ;but leaning on the sill one saw it framed in sky with copses and walks stretching away behind it. I spent many hours watching that tree when, as often happened, I was feeling too indolent for other occupations. In bleak winter twilights, when its extended branches rose in dark austerity amid the cold and wet, or toughly struggled with a fierce wind, I saw it a self-reliant Titan, a vegetable Prometheus, a dumb and vigilant spirit without hope and without fear as the tempests swelled and the menacing darkness came round. When spring thrust away winter, and the clustered crocuses, yellow, purple, and mauve, shone in the grass about its foot, faint delicate veils spread over its branches, veils of buds which presently broke forth into leaves. In summer it was a great palace for birds.
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