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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Little Rivers by Henry van Dyke: foaming through the gorge below, while a score of waterfalls leaped
from the cliffs on either side and dashed down to join it.
The peasants, men, women and children, were cutting the grass in
the perpendicular fields; the woodmen were trimming and felling the
trees in the fir-forests; the cattle-tenders were driving their
cows along the stony path, or herding them far up on the hillsides.
It was a lonely scene, and yet a busy one; and all along the road
was written the history of the perils and hardships of the life
which now seemed so peaceful and picturesque under the summer
sunlight.
These heavy crosses, each covered with a narrow, pointed roof and
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