A Thousand-Mile Walk 



for the ashes of art; and strong evergreen arms 

 laden with ferns and tillandsia drapery are 

 spread over all Life at work everywhere, 

 obliterating all memory of the confusion of man. 



In Georgia many graves are covered with a 

 common shingle roof, supported on four posts 

 as the cover of a well, as if rain and sunshine 

 were not regarded as blessings. Perhaps, in this 

 hot and insalubrious climate, moisture and sun- 

 heat are considered necessary evils to which 

 they do not wish to expose their dead. 



The money package that I was expecting did 

 not arrive until the following week. After stop 

 ping the first night at the cheap, disreputable- 

 looking hotel, I had only about a dollar and a 

 half left in my purse, and so was compelled to 

 camp out to make it last in buying only bread. 

 I went out of the noisy town to seek a sleeping- 

 place that was not marshy. After gaining the 

 outskirts of the town toward the sea, I found 

 some low sand dunes, yellow with flowering soli- 

 dagoes. 



I wandered wearily from dune to dune sink- 

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