Part 2 — BEAUTIFUL THINGS
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Louis loved beautiful things.
He was always looking for them, and so he always found them.
In summer the bright flowers filled him with joy.
When they were gone he looked for something else that was bright and beautiful.
He found it in the autumn fires.
All boys like to burn the dry leaves in the autumn.
But they think only of the fun they have.
When Louis looked out at the fires, he saw that they were beautiful.
I think I can hear him calling to his nurse.
“Come, Nurse, see the red fire!
How it blazes!
And, Nurse, watch the soft, gray smoke.
See how it rises higher and higher toward the sky!
Now it trails far out like a soft, gray veil!
The fire is bright and the smoke beautiful!”
Louis said we had the bright flowers in summer and the bright fires in the fall.
He also said we had something bright in each season.
Can you tell something bright or beautiful to be seen in the winter?
Robert Louis Stevenson wrote these lines, also:
“The world is so full of a number of things, I am sure we should all be as happy as kings.”
What did he mean?
Is the world full of beautiful things?
Can we see them as Louis did?
When he was a little boy at home, he looked for them and he always found them.
When he grew to be a man, he still found beautiful things all over the world.
