Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

[inscription reads] " sations, every attempt at descriptions seems forced or fantastic or effusive. / I did not see the sunrise. When, two or three years ago, I regularly got up just to see the morning I made a resolution never to miss the sunrises, I little thought how soon I would lapse into prosaic late-rising. / Afoot thru (sic) the town all day selling tickets. I would have enjoyed watching the day’s development from the top of some hill. / Early the sky was solid; a heavy milkish blue haze - nature had the appear- "