He felt the swash of the
fragrant water upon his body. The leaves of the overhanging maple
rustled with melody in the wind of youthful summer.
Exercise.
After reading this passage over a dozen times very slowly
and carefully, and copying it phrase by phrase, continue
the narrative in Crane's style through two more paragraphs,
bringing the story of this day's doing to some natural conclusion.
CHAPTER XI.
THE POWER OF SIMPLICITY:
The Bible, Franklin, Lincoln.
We have all heard that the simplest style is the strongest; and no doubt
most of us have wondered how this could be, as we turned over in our
minds examples of what seemed to us simplicity, comparing them with the
rhetorical, the lofty, and the sublime passages we could call to mind.
Precisely this wonder was in the minds of a number of very well educated
people who gathered to attend the dedicatory exercises of the Gettysburg
monument, and Abraham Lincoln gave them one of the very finest
illustrations in the whole range of the world's history, of how
simplicity can be stronger than rhetoric. Edward Everett was the orator
of the day, and he delivered a most polished and brilliant oration.
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