Still finer is the spectacle when the eagle takes the buck running.
On other days we would pay visits to the country seats at some of the great lords' beautiful fortified places, and the villages clustering beneath their walls.

Here we saw vineyards and corn-fields and well-kept park-like grounds, with such timber in them as filled me with delight, for I do love a good tree.

There it stands so strong and sturdy, and yet so beautiful, a very type of the best sort of man.

How proudly it lifts its bare head to the winter storms, and with what a full heart it rejoices when the spring has come again! How grand its voice is, too, when it talks with the wind: a thousand aeolian harps cannot equal the beauty of the sighing of a great tree in leaf.

All day it points to the sunshine and all night to the stars, and thus passionless, and yet full of life, it endures through the centuries, come storm, come shine, drawing its sustenance from the cool bosom of its mother earth, and as the slow years roll by, learning the great mysteries of growth and of decay.