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.A wavery taper20
.[?]....ly
.?despairnly
.boxes & old
.clothes

which seemed to come from some wandering taper which is
moved uncertainly by a wavering hand, again moved upstairs, into the
bedrooms, & into the attics, & among boxes, & clothes.
        For example, the shawl which muffled the wild wild boar's
skull was stirred; thosethe hanging garden, those those clouds, & valleys of
singing birds, were floated to & fro like a balloon
 pendent over
 great precipices . But again, seeing how
short a time was before them, & how great a resistance even a
shawl offers to a light air, the spies & desisted again from
their attempts to distingrate[?] the hanging shawl ,[or?]21 &
again Indeed they could scarcely move a loose pane, or stir
the coat of the sleeping dog, or put any impediment in impede
the way of the beetles in the kitchen,22 sliding from corn dresser to
carpet. Moreover, how And Further, 2what is one night?
A short space, especially in the north; especially where the
darkness dims so so soon, like the a turning
 leaf, & so soon a bird sings, a cock crows, &
a faint green quickens in the water. All w Light will soon
return, & the night upon night is needed[?].23 Night upon
But then night succeeds to night. They lengthen, they darken;
the some of them hold aloft clear planets, moons of argent &
plates of brightness. The autumn trees become like take on,
ravaged as they are take on& the splendour of tattered flags,
burning in the gloom of some stone against the wall of the
church wall, of
 cathedral
 caves where the gold letters & marble pages describe death in battle, &
bodies buried far away ,-- or lost, or sunk. So they
gleam in the yellow moonlight, the light of harvest moons,
which behold the stubble fields, & the cle[?]24 the light which
tranquilises labour & brings the wave lapping the sand lit
with a caress. Then it seems as if, divine goodness
touched by human penitence, had divine goodness had
drawn the curtain which & displayed the treasures [which
we should enjoy always, certainly: ] the clear sky, the
quiet wave, the hare erect in his form, the bird
[illegible] cow tranquil, the flowers boat rocking the moon
which did we deserve them we should always own -

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