This intrusion into a scene which was otherwise
calculated to stir the most sublime reflections & lead to the
most comforting conclusions stayed their pacing. If
that snout out in thrusting itself up in the there expressed
the desire wish to meant death, & starvation, & pain,
it was difficult to abolish its significance, & to continue.
walking by the sea, to adm marvel at the, as one walked by the sea to
marvel at the completeness, & at the roundness, &
rounded completeness of human existence. [the the nature
& how nature capped what was supplemented what man
advanced, & completed what he began, [?] ] For Equally benignant &
sublime, ] she contemplated his misery, she condoned his
meanness, she acquiesced in his torture. She was as
beautiful as ever, remained
beautiful
still & butYet how could one forget that
bring that ugly snout, that lean murderous ship, into the pattern ?
The black snout interfered with the whole composition.
Was there no composition at all then? Was it
Was it And there was This dream of harmony & completeness
was but the reflection in a mirror - [ & the snout broke the
mirror, & the mirror was not only such a superficial glassiness
.such as forms in a state of quiescence when the nobler powers
are asleep? Anything was nobler than Semblances
such as these meant nothing; & so, impatiently yet
despairingly - for beauty has her consolation, however
illusory, she may be - it seemed nobler & more necessary now
to no more beach pacings, no more contemplating was
possible, & for years, for a [?]solitude desolation reigned there;
the mirror was broken.
Night after night, in summer & winter nothing was
waves & sun, the torment of storm & the d arrowlike
stillness of fine weather held their court without interve
interference. A Listening from the - had there
been anyone to listen - from the upper roomschambers of the
house, which where the only gigantic chaos could hav