...lost their light, the river its music; the hill became oppressively desolate; a heaviness in the bough of the darkened forest showed how much of their former...had been dependent upon a life which was not theirs (Works, 8, p. 224). Ruskinian scholars have devoted many a page to the beginning of "The Lamp of Memory",...

...flowers in an instant lost their light, the river its music, the hills " became oppressively desolate, a heaviness in the boughs of the darkened " forest,...dependent upon " a life which was not theirs, how much the glory of the imperishable or " continually renewed creation is reflected from things more precious...