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instance, when we landed in the evening, after 

 our stormy voyage round the island, almost the 

 first thing we saw on shore was a sight emi- 

 nently suggestive of quietness and peace 



A flock of sheep that leisurely passed by, 

 One after one. 



The wind had dropped, the sky was already 

 clearing, and these sheep were slowly travelling 

 with their shepherd along the road from Bro- 

 dick. They all moved together, silent and 

 with their heads down the man as well as 

 the sheep. Coming as we had just done from 

 off the tempestuous fields of ocean, we felt 

 strongly that sentiment which seems so often to 

 have been present to the minds of the ancients, 

 a sentiment arising out of the contrast between 

 the rolling sea with all its dreadful possibilities, 

 and the stable earth which represented to them 

 pastoral occupation, restfulness, safety, and 

 calm. 



At half-past eleven the twilight was still 



