The Artist’s Outlook.
The artist was painting a sunset — vivid red, with blue streaks and green splotches scattered over the canvas. A farm hand stopped and watched him. “Ah,” said the artist, looking up suddenly, “perhaps to you Nature has also opened up her sky pictures page by page? Have you seen Ihe lambent flame of dawn leaping across the pellucid east? The red-stained sulphurous islets floating as if in a lake of fire in the west? The ragged clouds at midnight, black as ravens’ wings, blotting out the shuddering moon?" "No,” replied the farm hand, not since T stopped drinking ”
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Cromwell Argus, Volume LXVIII, Issue 3485, 6 September 1937, Page 7
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