He thought that God’s goodness appeared in strange places. Dont close your eyes.

"But I will tell you Squire that having read even a few dozen books in common is a force more binding than blood."

He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die.

That’s so, said the judge. They do not have to have a reason. But order is not set aside because of their indifference.

Words are things. The words he is in possession of he cannot be deprived of. Their authority transcends his ignorance of their meaning.

EVENING RIDE

The world lay still and clear like a long mural

And we who watched were all that moved and we

Could overlook that we ourselves were moving.

There was no wind to flaw the level sunlight

And the long shadows lying on the hills

And chimney smoke pale blue on deep blue air.

Three children by the roadside stopped their play To gaze. A woman sewing on her porch Paused with the lifted needle in her hand.

Two farmers with a load of hay half loaded

Stood with their pitchforks idle as we passed.

Even a dog looked and forgot to bark.

The road was always upward. Now it was day,

Now twilight, and now day again. Now warm,

Now cool. We felt the cool grow ever cooler.

Woodsmoke was in the air, late supper cooking, Fragrance of newmown hay and ancient woods And evening vines in sudden deep ravines.

We reached the summit but only after the sun

Had gone. The road beyond dipped down to darkness

While all the higher hills round us were bright.

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He thought that God’s goodness appeared in strange places. Dont close your eyes.

"But I will tell you Squire that having read even a few dozen books in common is a force more binding than blood."

He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die.

That’s so, said the judge. They do not have to have a reason. But order is not set aside because of their indifference.

Words are things. The words he is in possession of he cannot be deprived of. Their authority transcends his ignorance of their meaning.

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