JL. FOLLOWING 
'^THE DEER 
STILL H 
to her picture — the sense of a filmy 
veil let down ere the end was reached, 
a soft haze on the glowing hilltops, 
a sheen as of silver mist along the 
stream in the valley, a fleecy light-shot 
cloud on the sea, to suggest more 
beautiful things beyond the veil where 
one could not see. 
Evening found me loitering home- 
: ; ^ ward through the short 
twilight, along silent wood 
roads from which the birds 
had departed, breathing 
deep of the pure air with 
its pungent tang of ripened 
leaves, sniffing the first night smells, 
listening now for the yap of a fox, 
and now for the distant bay of a dog 
