The cloud scenery gives such variety to a hilly landscape that it would be worth while to journalize its aspect from hour to hour.

A cloud, however,--as I have myself experienced,--is apt to grow solid and as heavy as a stone the instant that you take in hand to describe it, But, in my own heart, I have found great use in clouds.

Such silvery ones as those to the northward, for example, have often suggested sculpturesque groups, figures, and attitudes; they are especially rich in attitudes of living repose, which a sculptor only hits upon by the rarest good fortune.

When I go back to my dear native land, the clouds along the horizon will be my only gallery of art!" "I can see cloud shapes, too," said Donatello; "yonder is one that shifts strangely; it has been like people whom I knew.

And now, if I watch it a little longer, it will take the figure of a monk reclining, with his cowl about his head and drawn partly over his face, and--well! did I not tell you so ?" "I think," remarked Kenyon, "we can hardly be gazing at the same cloud.
What I behold is a reclining figure, to be sure, but feminine, and with a despondent air, wonderfully well expressed in the wavering outline from head to foot.