r***n 发帖数: 298 | 1 April
Come High Water
THERE are degrees and kinds of solitude. An island is a lake has one
kind; but lakes have boats, and there is always a chance tthat one
might land to pay you a visit. A peak in the clouds has another kind;
but most peaks have trails, and trails have tourists. I know of no solitude
so secure as one guarded by a spring flood; nor do the geese, who have
see more kinds of degrees of aloneness that I have.
So we sit on our hill deside a new-born pasque, and watch the geese go
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