N my way back the first 

 rays of light caught the top- 

 most branches of the trees 

 and gilded the flying clouds 

 in the east. Far in the 

 west, black and forbidding masses of cloud were 

 gathering, and the wind, I observed, had shifted its 

 course. Again I had lost Crip, and I was regretful, 

 for there were questions which only he could answer. 

 But I flew all the faster for being alone, and soon 

 found the very place and the very flowers I had vis- 

 ited before. Speedily I took my load, but I could not 



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