the daze of summer

A rainbow in all its delicacy of color, arching through the sky -- more brilliant against the gray clouds, near its height its color melted into the white about them -- and downward toward the sober green of the trees, except that sunlight struck the tree just where it touched, and illuminated it to a glowing golden green.
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primary source and world-building

An article, seventy-five years old.  Because while I've groused recently about the world-building issue it touches on, there's nothing like seeing the difference to get it.