A Moonlit Night
A moonlit night is a remarkable
occasion for a beauty-seeker who has an aesthetic thirst for poetic feeling. In
a moonlit night, nature looks as though it were a dreamland full of life but
painted on a colored canvas. Things, as a whole, seem to be a living poem
harmoniously unifying a huge variety of subjects. The moon, as it drifts along
in the sky, darts its romantic look at the earth, tinting it with a vivacious
glow of spiced color. The night is calm. Seem from a high place, the flora
together with the edging waterline or river; look as if they were resting
peacefully. All this catches the imagination: that is why it arouses some
imagination. Imagination, as we know, is thought dominated by feeling, with a
flavor of intoxication. A moonlit night has all the quality to arouse such
solemn intoxication in the mind. The deeply glowing pieces of flocculent clouds
fixed to the ceiling if the sky snatches the mind away. Such a night is worth
enjoying foregoing the opportunity of sleep.
