Looked strange again: no distance seemed the same.

And now he could see clear and call by name

Valleys and hills and woods. The phantoms all

Took shape, and made a world, at morning’s call.

24

It was a ruinous land. The ragged stumps

Of broken trees rose out of endless clay

Naked of flower and grass: the slobbered humps

Dividing the dead pools. Against the grey

A shattered village gaped. But now the day