The Wild Geese of Wyndygoul 
back, and the faithful pair took up their life—and 
live it yet. 
The autumn sends the ordered flock afar, the 
father stays perforce on guard, but the bond that 
binds them all and takes them off and brings them 
back is stronger than the fear of death. So I have 
learned to love and venerate the honker Wild Goose 
whom Mother Nature dowered with love unquench- 
able, constructed for her own good ends a monu- 
ment of faithfulness unchanging, a creature heir 
of all the promises, so master of the hostile world 
around that he lives and spreads, defying plagues 
and beasts, and I wonder if this secret is not partly 
that the wise and patient mother leads. The long, 
slow test of time has given a minor place to the 
valiant, fearless, fighting male; his place the last of 
all, his mode of open fight the latest thing they 
try. And by a law inscrutable, inexorable, the 
young obey the matriarch. Wisdom their guide, 
not force. Their days are long on earth and the 
homeland of their race grows wide while others 
pass away. 
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SPE ine 
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GEN, wn". 
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HULAAAAUENS 
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