Essay: The Beautiful Valley
A simple literary essay written a few years back by me, depicting how a varied our perception can be depending on what our thoughts think the whole time. The Beautiful Valley At leisure he sat under the shade of an enormous tree, whose long slender branches twisted and turned like arms united to form a thick grey shadow in the vastness of the shining golden-green grassland. As he looked up, deep in thought born out of the book in his hand, his eyes feasted upon the beauty of the vista before him. He smiled at the regal guarding mountains that came down slanting from both sides of the valley. Faraway to the horizon, where the sky fell into the misty Earth, he could see nothing but a snowy peak that rose out of the grey haze, and shone golden-white, majestic above all visible. How breathtaking and “beautiful” the panorama was for the reader…! Had the reader a telescope, he would have seen, faraway on the snow-capped summit,