So ... the scene is set ... for good and ill.

Over the highest hill

New winds blow wild and shrill:

For “the old order changeth” still.

Who now is sure what shall endure?

The street is empty ... in the dusky store,

Holding the eye with a voluptuous lure,

The oranges burn through the smouldering gloom.

The Mountain That Watched

THE MOUNTAIN THAT WATCHED