16. D'ARCY'S LETTER
17. THE TWO DUKKERIPENS
18. THE WALK TO LLANBERIS
APPENDICES



AYLWIN

THE RENASCENCE OF WONDER



I

THE CYMRIC CHILD


I

'Those who in childhood have had solitary communings with the sea
know the sea's prophecy. They know that there is a deeper sympathy
between the sea and the soul of man than other people dream of. They
know that the water seems nearer akin than the land to the spiritual
world, inasmuch as it is one and indivisible, and has motion, and
answers to the mysterious call of the winds, and is the writing
tablet of the moon and stars. When a child who, born beside the sea,
and beloved by the sea, feels suddenly, as he gazes upon it, a dim
sense of pity and warning; when there comes, or seems to come, a
shadow across the waves, with never a cloud in the sky to cast it;