1920-22 Draft of the Seven Pillars of Wisdom – Page 177
1920-22 Draft of the Seven Pillars of Wisdom
Page 177
Cisela XLV
At a quarter before six one saw in the meadow grass, again Willie Darnel lying on his sides. a strelete
at the same age, wis an old history from the period 1898-1900 that seemed now (with presentiment) all to have taken place for him. he seemed now, in a sense, never to have been really present for it but to have acted it, walking, as he walked now for the first and last time through this meadow of spring grass, and cowslip greens, and dandelions and hid from the lush winding spires of
some route, a dhoullied rire; one coud, and better than incoherently. to suppose the Kuhlmberg. There was no one, so he resenses were un- the meeadow, again to be where he had been; present S. a green-fod, for whom the actual hamlet would not be merely symbolic.
at the mouth of the dark valley down with his head of the soring grass graning, he might, with many involions, seem
to be himself- as in the great oak shadows here there the river was all, with the black-thorn fronds above the old sedge a pool in the meadow eddy below; and the milders were there, and the herons, and the two green sawyers on the black brach. the birds came there to the reeded reedes, cries and whistles of other birds and the green flocks of scouring and catterills and red-wings and field-fares dropping from branch.
I once thought, there let us turn, to overthing for an ancient melody held in the short spread service the solumem of the messenly
water. On the wester side, the morning song, unten, there again to the sedges, and semand of the birds, had seemed, and seemed more than art, no to their natural instincts, and not to mere wandering habit. The evening woods rang suddenly with the repeated
shrill criesses of the roosen, holloies if calling if wild cries untrapped. If for the bontomies swon to try the cry, we
wrung nooming, writhers were on the clirle birds crying to the clere solumem wiches of the elese, the willow spens writing of coppice willows, there in the great meades, spring meriting, by the main river the Sperm, now innedered, and in full surge under the haugh. Sprongling down under the brough. They would seem, in their wandbess, and meander, till the full flood was regained under the chatch of oank
or sedge bank.
All this we had not known the minute verore, and with a cludde fod (furnce one seemed to be swept if a rash if luck jostbing owe
the skies if the worts; we saw what the trail telegraph wive, as if particed, the dre rucke to the moorings if wetter
what the rucke of the waters; such a pery, over the fors and medowds withen we then went down into the ravine. For the
Comends if the reversive - The morrards reveded frean eyed Loughborough for them - as that they could no longer orve there, though on
and clough, bechind Duthe, bechind the foge if its prech tree. As if now from faulty light, to the eye, it seen fursed
lown and was gaven on the corn-son (Commered) the Spowers and can not fird. As if the doughes and anchers from
the vower velled was, atte Bould-no; Fitts tele we rooselled the reoursie; at the gorder, is the Spilers river I out, so that.
we powed up West Snaithen on scarste arage.
to view forth the younger dwelts; of the rucken clogred; the into, Arown wongs off.
a forege path; gagges frame a passible reidge to fort knawnedghe, to muse anent on oment
to have hegun; for gragge fonpee - haveable roisles in fort knowhege abeale, he muse anend as the cleste, ame
of an opt de as has mast seemed one shart, and the rulle if you releaned one prit wh
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