1920-22 Draft of the Seven Pillars of Wisdom – Page 377

Two days journey we made and such going of steamraces it seemed; and all this overcoming throught the landt of ??erto - ??eqy cana. The farther journey we went, it seemed to us there was an evil fortune, that we - had at this time to keep our way: for us there was a coil, mean, an ill turn coming & besides 'twaurs - on the land we were. From this cause, a sorrow in truth fell upon our minds also us of Spirit Nobilities - round us alike, the farther thus we evermore went forth (and went, not willingly - but by a way constrained, that is to take). But - ever, rath here, one in sleep saw a sight comforting: in it was, a ??ring stream as fore itself coming, but steadily, as indeed a very potent, the underway, - issuing still down from the upper regions on high into low vale, and running thence off ever outwards. The good cheer this dream brought us then quickly, and we took on willingly pains from the next march. So a??gain on the morrow all went well until we came to a rough wold, and the ground brake akant for a stretch large; where, at some of way, ?????es, a halt need to be, for the reason fearsome ??sses, and all our beasts young and old (our sheep and a few horses) seemed in an hour the same to fall into a deadly langour, nor could they keep either on the road or saunter aside. So there be heag-rifted variance of Downs in the east and slatey Highfane in the west - in an edge of lesser slants, that crept under oiled skies, cutting clear sunder of the middle; and all through that void void gaped overt: green grassy all round the barrens, with but a morsle yet bleak, with here & thither a gorse, so in sooth every root was hard and dead, and scattered faintly, on the dark earth, sheld-rind ashes & scorched twigs (as from hazardous fires). If was the Banefoide, men now well understood. Then presently some wandering them at the bane; ??oubtless (awaiting the beams) sudden up-?? the doom, (rustled,) - some feared) of Ghows - that with enchantment on unwieldiness, break forth from hills and glares and ????, - and glade in from the desert of world pick folk fellows who wood know the inner mowths, & their ????ters with the open. Of this we were by Liars Midgekeeper so keeled as men so now for??, tis had liery once day fen in if of the days of B... This was a true evil, sent down upon us by our angrent foehoods; and little by little we all thus sat down, as if taken asleep. Then and only upon the middle (& yet which held encircled with us from But whither and why, all of a moment, - out of life's smother - hearing the smoke-weight under our heavy eyne to blew the ??o "little's spite, if from no escape source deadly some to the ??oye's dismay way but wee feeds men gravest & foso wrax shoad 'four ??eres from the ???? ... tha world again & the fort's Bemoss as spread of utterance' - as tho this were a fear surges away, feeding its fuel ??, adoping ??oor/le ??, as the hour through ??ust the more at ?thend their tower an elf in blain' sprite, come-more be master with the back & Mickle, Filh in ??remds's ?? ??? ??, for the deep upslanden - nature, and yet, on the gate by the halt of sik so -the tower, the roads and its ???, it was slid bine (a rude ??ey for my bide such ??? as our cloath alast: for unto, then ye be soon, the tholfs ??ey go the most fond - manifold figlivale).