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were so brought together prepare &, to assemble the scattered parts of the faith he of the
he vision within them. Now displayed outside them it wa
in cliff & sea, what they in sky & wind it the thing seemed manifest, & what was outside, & inside,
miraculously seemed miraculously made one.
          For a week at the end of May this unity was persisted
& The spring without a lea leaf to toss or a bough to
very bare & bright presented itself wide eyed
watchful
like a virgin fierce in her

chastity contemptuous in her purity; & was there, laid out, in the
fields & on the seavery , pure& rather heartless & if it were not for the
dreams & desires of the beholders, apparently as if entirely
unconcerned with their what was done or thought or hoped or
feared. Beauty, she the with the dreams & desires of the
beholders. with what was done or thought; by the beholders. by the beholders.
as if the Nevertheless, thes th[?] dreams persisted; &
it was impossible, so str to resist the strange intimation which
every gull & flower, &the trees – the bright pure earth itself
seemed to declare, but if one questioned them at once to
withdraw, as thenas to the triumph of good, things54 the universality of
happiness; the & again or to resist the extraordinary
stimulusation, which seemed to urging the one to seek a
people hither & thither as if in search of some good,[?]thing some
hard crystal it might be, entirely remote from their
n known pleasures & familiar pleasures & virtues; something
altogether alien to the processes of domestic life; something
bright & fierce & hard, let f a crystal laid on a sandy
floor, a diamond glittering in the white dust. And then,
suddenly, as it seemed conquered & acquiescent, softened now
& tender, the spring seemed to the watchers & pacers who
were seeking a revelation to have knowledge of theirthe watchers
tears: to cloudy, to have compassion, & all
echoing with birdssinging55 voices & boys whis bees humming & the
& instead of seeking this absolute
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