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At last, there came in the evening, the when George all the labour
stopped: cloth dusters were flicked from the windows: the windows were banged to, shut;
.keys turned, they locked the doors, George shouldered his syth stopped, a automatically
still; & then at once, as if the cleaning & the sy sy scything had
du dulled the sound, began that half heard melody with the
rooks deliberateing fastidiously tentatively among the tree tops,
that half heard melody, that adumbrated music which
the ear half catches but lets fall – cries, shouts, bark, far or close at hand –
wrapped up in the mesh of summer stillness & suddenly
.h was heard, & lost, & that music began, so widely spaced
 is it, & half close &
 half faint, half
 here & half
 far away, & then the rooks,
creaking of the rooks was joined with it, -- rising fully deliberating
above the tree tops, & then the insects cheeped & then the
the cut grass started & 96shivereds ranwhere throughit lay it, but
always with notes were dropped, & & gradually, with the
sunset, peace sharpness was lost; & like a mist rising,
quiet rose, the rooks settled, the grass settled., At
ease, & loosed loose, Freedom & ease, content & peace was the
lot of thecamewhole world shaking itself sighing down to sleep, darkly
here without a light to it, save what came suffused through leaves,
& palely caught by flowers.
        Then, in the darkness, the [?]unl restless spirits who
had left their beds to ask what fate meant, orwhat God meant, to
what destiny the ball of the world rolled, could once more
they moved, to say feel assured on the beach of
Then when indeed calm had returned,. Peaceful messages breathed from the
waves on the beach, & to the house.       Never to break its
sleep again, never to to to lull it rather more calmly, no more
sweetly to rest. What ever they there, in bed, dream holily wisely, weto confirm; --
what else were they murmuring? And behold, – yes
Indeed, their message, their wisdom, no sooner was it
thought than they wore it a garment of splendour;
cast it like a swept it over swirled it, & they the
wave swept up the beach.       Then, like a th mind so

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