08/30/1914
graphite pencil on lined paper
5 3/4 x 3 11/16 inches
Burchfield Penney Art Center courtesy of the Charles E. Burchfield Foundation, 2000
Sky turns white - steely blue shadowed clouds stick to it.(HT)Sunset blue orange & violet - dreamy clouds.(HT)I sometimes feel, as tonight that until I at some time give my passion full play will I ever attain any kind of peace. And yet I fully know that such indulgence brings a worse state of mind. Thus is a man always fighting.(HT)Thru singing songs with brothers and sisters, discover Kiplings poem “On the Road to Mandalay”, which was set to music. I copy it down. “Where the dawn comes up like thunder out of China