a road a way; or words to that effect
but keep to your left instead, along an old road —
’least it was a road, but that was long ago, or
a something of the sort, among the rocks ₁ with
respect to the idea that every soil and situation affords
“a something,” of a road, ₂
for the way to the sands was open before me. ₁
the long road had no loveliness that one should desire it.
the Something never came to an end ₃
a something trial of wood, hay, and stubble. why
not? a something of ourselves left living ₄
a something of what Ruth felt when she stood among the alien corn,
or words to that effect. ₅
to feel it cross your mind when walking that
you have just passed a something of which you took no notice? ₆
a something of neither earth nor heaven.
“You have been to Dalton — have you not?” ₇
sources
- “Darliston” (Chapter 9, “Leyton Farm. — Mrs. Gainsborough seeking to sunder a friendship, commences one of her own account”) in The Ladies’ Companion and Monthly Magazine (London, 1868) / more
- The rural economy of the Midland counties; including the management of livestock, in Leicestershire and its environs: together with minutes on agriculture and planting in the district of the Midland Station. By Mr. Marshall. (London, 1796) / more
- Under God’s Sky : The Story of a Cleft in Marland, by Deas Cromarty (London, 1895) / more
- God’s Trial by Fire of Wood, Hay, and Stubble. “A review, in thirteen chapters, of condemned work, built upon the foundation of “Precious Faith.” By Walter Rowton. (London: Houlston & Sons, 1870) / more
- “The Duel,” in On Everything by H. Belloc (New York, 1910) / more
Ruth. Here alluding to that line in Keats, “Ode to a Nightingale” —
“She stood in tears among the alien corn” — link,
itself drawing on Ruth II : linkand Ruth, my grandmother’s name.
- William De Morgan, When Ghost Meets Ghost (London, 1914) / more
- “In the Abbott’s Seat,” in the Columbus Sunday Enquirer (Columbus, Georgia; August 29, 1880) / more