a something of ash, of wy
and there was a something of ash in her pallor ₁
a something of dust in the air. But he can hear ₂ wy
the Welsh for “river.”
“the spreading river.”
“the noisy river.”
“the dark coloured,” ₃
not a bird, nor a fish, but a something of flesh very like, ₄
in every cock of
every wrinkle
in every strike and straddle
a something of every external object ₅
an air of life, a something of,
flesh and blood, which separates them at once a hundred miles ₆ —
Claire was a something of Chepstow while Nevil was a something of Wales. ₃ —
This thing which thinks, feels, and wills inside itself; there is ₇
a something of the difficulty we find in realizing in winter that it will ever be warm again, and vice versâ ₈
dust for sparrows, a something of ₇
sources
- J. W. Nicholas, “Jasper’s Wife,” in Wales (October 1913) : 345-350
more - something — combined from first landing, and preview snippet — in a volume called Islands, its vol. 7 (New Zealand, 1978) : 115
more - George Memminger, “Bacon — The River Wye — and Chepstow,” in New Shakespeareana (April-July 1911) : 48-55 (51)
more - “Nya-gwa-ih, How the Bear Lost its Tail,” in “Myths and Legends of the New York State Iroquois,” by Harriet Maxwell Converse, edited and annotated by Arthur Caswell Parker, in New York State Museum, Education Department Bulletin No. 437 (Albany, N.Y., December 15, 1908) : 123-124
more - Charles Dickens, “An Idea of Mine,” in Household Words (Saturday, March 13, 1858) : 289-291 (289)
more - Foreign Classics for English Readers, Molière, by Mrs. Oliphant and F. Tarver, M.A. (London, 1879) : 24
more - “Dust for Sparrows” (“Things thought, felt, seen, heard, and dreamed”) by Remy de Gourmont, translated by Ezra Pound, in The Dial (September 1920) : 219-224 (222)
more - (Monsignor) James Laird Patterson, “Exiled Popes,” in The Contemporary Review (August 1874) : 480-493 (488)
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