In such a forest was the old dame's hut, and up such a bean stalk Jack climbed, to find a giant and a castle high above.

Why not?
What may not be up there?
You look up into the green cloud, and long for a moment to be a monkey.

There may be monkeys up there over your head, burly red Howler, {131a} or tiny peevish Sapajou, {131b} peering down at you, but you cannot peer up at them.

The monkeys, and the parrots, and the humming birds, and the flowers, and all the beauty, are upstairs--up above the green cloud.

You are in 'the empty nave of the cathedral,' and 'the service is being celebrated aloft in the blazing roof.' We will hope that, as you look up, you have not been careless enough to walk on, for if you have you will be tripped up at once: nor to put your hand out incautiously to rest it against a tree, or what not, for fear of sharp thorns, ants, and wasps' nests.