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A collection of short devotional essays and seasonal meditations written for readers with busy lives. Organized around the year’s cycles, the pieces use close observations of nature—spring woods, summer hay, autumnal fields, shores, mountains, rain, and winter twilight—to prompt spiritual reflection, moral thought, and quiet consolation. The tone is contemplative and noncontroversial, blending parish experience, personal reminiscence, and practical religious advice to encourage pause, inner breathing, and renewed perspective. Each essay aims to turn ordinary sights and moments into gentle prompts for devotion and steadying counsel for daily life.

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Title: The Harvest of a Quiet Eye: Leisure Thoughts for Busy Lives

Author: John Richard Vernon

Release date: February 28, 2017 [eBook #54261]
Most recently updated: October 23, 2024

Language: English

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The Harvest of a Quiet Eye.


With Numerous Illustrations by
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and other eminent Artists.


THE HARVEST OF A QUIET EYE.

LEISURE THOUGHTS
FOR
BUSY LIVES.

By the Author of “My Study Chair,” “Musings,” etc.

LONDON:
THE RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY,
56, Paternoster Row; 65, St. Paul’s Churchyard;
And 164, Piccadilly.


The outward shows of sky and earth,
Of hill and valley he has viewed;
And impulses of deeper birth
Have come to him in solitude.
In common things that round us lie,
Some random truths he can impart,
—The harvest of a quiet eye
That broods and sleeps on his own heart.
WORDSWORTH.