the spirit of place and other essays(地方的精神等)-第15部分
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it dips into the valley; growing vaguer and larger; runs; quicker than the
wind; uphill; smaller and darker on the soft and dry grass; and rushes to
meet its bird when the bird swoops to a branch and clings。
In the great bird country of the north…eastern littoral of England; about
Holy Island and the basaltic rocks; the shadows of the high birds are the
movement and the pulse of the solitude。 Where there are no woods to
make a shade; the sun suffers the brilliant eclipse of flocks of pearl…white
sea birds; or of the solitary creature driving on the wind。 Theirs is always
a surprise of flight。 The clouds go one way; but the birds go all ways:
in from the sea or out; across the sands; inland to high northern fields;
where the crops are late by a month。 They fly so high that though they
have the shadow of the sun under their wings; they have the light of the
earth there also。 The waves and the coast shine up to them; and they fly
between lights。
Black flocks and white they gather their delicate shadows up; 〃swift as
dreams;〃 at the end of their flight into the clefts; platforms; and ledges of
harbourless rocks dominating the North Sea。 They subside by degrees;
with lessening and shortening volleys of wings and cries until there comes
the general shadow of night wherewith the little shadows close; complete。
The evening is the shadow of another flight。 All the birds have traced
wild and innumerable paths across the mid…May earth; their shadows have
fled all day faster than her streams; and have overtaken all the movement
of her wingless creatures。 But now it is the flight of the very earth that
carries her clasped shadow from the sun。
Footnotes:
{1} I found it afterwards: it was Rebecca。
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