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This lane inclined up-hill all the way to Hay; having reached the

middle, I sat down on a stile which led thence into a field

Gatheringh it froze keenly; as was attested by a

sheet of ice covering the causehere a little brooklet, now

congealed, had overflowed after a rapid thaw some days since Frorey and battlemented

hall was the principal object in the vale below me; its woods and

dark rookery rose against the west I lingered till the sun went

down ast the trees, and sank crimson and clear behind them I

then turned eastward

On the hill-top abovemomentarily, she looked over Hay, which, half lost

in trees, sent up a blue smoke from its few chimneys: it was yet a

mile distant, but in the absolute hush I could hear plainly its thin

murmurs of life My ear, too, felt the flow of currents; in what

dales and depths I could not tell: but there weretheir passes That evening

calh of