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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 ?70
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

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