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... further back than the Puritans ; but it was part of his feeling about the hill . And the place to him was vast . He had been brought up here as soon as he could walk ; had staggered here on baby legs and fallen , nose to the earth .
... further back than the Puritans ; but it was part of his feeling about the hill . And the place to him was vast . He had been brought up here as soon as he could walk ; had staggered here on baby legs and fallen , nose to the earth .
Page 68
He began to walk back , more slowly than he had ever walked , more heavily ; back up the same path , through the mud , out on to the grass track . The cows stood aside , wary ; expecting perhaps another sudden charge of cars and men .
He began to walk back , more slowly than he had ever walked , more heavily ; back up the same path , through the mud , out on to the grass track . The cows stood aside , wary ; expecting perhaps another sudden charge of cars and men .
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But he leaves me , he walks off a little way to do something else . So I turn and run without looking back , taking big strides away from him across the hillside dead square roofs of Vassilaki . a > over I take one more shorter walk ...
But he leaves me , he walks off a little way to do something else . So I turn and run without looking back , taking big strides away from him across the hillside dead square roofs of Vassilaki . a > over I take one more shorter walk ...
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POEMS translated by Graeme Wilson | 28 |
PRISONER by Elizabeth Jennings | 53 |
JOHN MURRAY 50 ALBEMARLE STREET LONDON WIX | 75 |
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