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There was a strong soft grey light standing at the side of the blind ... smiling and touching her as it had promised. She leaped to the floor and stood looking at it swaying with sleep. Ships sailing along with masts growing on them, poplars streaming up from the ships, all in a steam of gold.... Last night’s soapy water poured away and the fresh poured out ready standing there all night, everything ready.... I must not forget the extra piece of string.... Je-ru-sa-lem the Gol-den, with-milk-and-hun-ney—blest.... Sh, not so much noise ... beneath thy con, tem, pla, tion, sink, heart, and, voice, o, ppressed.
I know not, oh, I, know, not.
Sh—Sh ... hark hark my soul angelic songs are swelling O’er earth’s green fields, and ocean’s wave-beat shore ... damn—blast where are my bally knickers? sing us sweet fragments of the songs above.
The green world everywhere, inside and out ... all along the dim staircase, waiting in the dim cold kitchen.
No blind, brighter. Cool grey light, a misty windless morning. Shut the door.
They stand those halls of zi-on
All jubilant with song.