The woodlanders book6/4/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() They had planted together, and together they had felled together they had, with the run of the years, mentally collected those remoter signs and symbols which, seen in few, were of runic obscurity, but all together made an alphabet. They had been possessed of its finer mysteries as of commonplace knowledge had been able to read its hieroglyphs as ordinary writing to them the sights and sounds of night, winter, wind, storm, amid those dense boughs, which had to Grace a touch of the uncanny, and even the supernatural, were simple occurrences whose origin, continuance, and laws they foreknew. ![]() “The casual glimpses which the ordinary population bestowed upon that wondrous world of sap and leaves called the Hintock woods had been with these two, Giles and Marty, a clear gaze. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |