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'the long summer twilight rose and fell through the^^ I 



'" /smoky air, uttering their peevish cries and making ;j* M 



\ their ghostly booming sounds with their high-diving,VL,,/ 



-just as if they were out over the darkening swales ^J 



> 'along some gloomy swamp-edge. VST* 



* For many weeks I had a big tame spider in the i t 



,corner of my study there in that city flat, and I have ft ~jf* 

 Jyet to read an account of all the species of spiders o / 



to be found dwelling within the walls of any great \ 

 city. Even Argiope of the meadows is doubtless 

 yfound in the Fens. Not far away from my flat, down 



near the North Station, one of my friends on the 



1 ' . j 



iroof of his flat kept several hives of bees. They fed^ 

 ( on the flowers of the Garden, on those in dooryards,"' 

 iland on the honey-yielding lindens which stand here 

 ? and there throughout the city. Pigeons and sparrows, 

 built their nests within sight of my windows ; and by 

 1 going early to the roof I could see the sun rise, andl 

 in the evening I could watch it go down behind the 

 hills of Belmont as now I watch it from my lookout. 

 :here on Mullein Hill. 



One is never far from the sky, nor from the earth, e 

 ,nor from the free, wild winds, nor from the wilder' 

 night that covers city and sea and forest with 

 quiet, and fills them all with lurking shadows that 

 never shall be tamed. 



