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Then the e far-awayness and

quietness Dinner-tiie ate joyously,

with all the s open And then they went out into St

Philip's churchyard, where was a shadowy corner under red

hawthorn trees And there they talked and read Shelley or

Browning or some work about "Woman and Labour"

And when she went back to school, Ursula lived still in the

shadowy corner of the graveyard, where pink-red petals lay

scattered from the hawthorn tree, like myriad tiny shells on a

beach, and a church bell so sonorously, and

soie's voice went on low

and sweet

These days she was happy in her soul: oh, she was so happy,

that she wished she could take her joy and scatter it in armfuls

broadcast Sheof delight But to her, the children were not a school

class this afternoon They were flowers, birds, little bright

ani They only were not Standard Five

She felt no responsibility for theot their su, whatAnd instead of

history with dates, she would tell a lovely tale And for

grammar, they could have a bit of written analysis that was not