The Forest Giant

The Forest Giant

For years on end it had been rolling, across the plains, through the deep meadow grasses, under the dim echoing archways of the forest. Always, in heat and cold, beneath blue skies, or skies clouded with rain and hail and snow, it had been rolling ceaselessly. One day it would be gilded by the sunlightbut not softened; another day grizzled streaks of rain soaked itwithout refreshment. It was buried, to all appearances for ever, by drifts of snowbut was not hurt. It had crossed cataracts of light and floods of shadow; it had been rocked by soft winds and hurled dizzily into the air by the shrieking gusts of cyclones; and it had met all these thingsthe sweetness of the day, the shade of night, the winters, the springs, the summerswith the same submissive, invulnerable apathy. It had waited its hour, ready, if need be, to wait yet much longer. Those who boast of their travels and adventures should think over this journey and its conditions. We have glimpses of other countries, we climb mountains, we run through woods and fields; but our varieties and difficulties are as nothing to the differences of its varied blades of grass, to its dark holes in the ground, its mounds of earth or snow, to all the obstacles which it met and overcame or slipped past on its road. Our gallops on shore or voyages at sea do not compare with its mad career as the sport of storms and mountain-torrents. Time and space fought over the little helpless rolling body. The elements loosed out their terrors round it like an evil dream, seeming to toss it about in prize. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 65161
Author: Le Corbeau, Adrien
Release Date: Apr 25, 2021
Format: eBook
Language: English

Contributors

Translator: Lawrence, T. E. (Thomas Edward), 1888-1935