ness we can only envy him, I tried to discover,
I tried to make clear to myself, what it really is that on a dull
evening at home, in a sleepless night in London, or in the long winter
evenings anywhere, draws me back again and again to that curious book.
But even there in Selborne the secret was hidden from me. In truth one
might as well inquire of the birds why they delight us, or of the
flowers why we love them so; for in some way I cannot understand
Gilbert White was gently at one with these and spoke of them sweetly
like a lover and a friend having a gift from God by which he makes us
partakers of his pleasure.

And so spring drew to a close as I lingered in Selborne, for I could
not drag myself away. And when, at last, I determined to set out, the
Feast of St John was already at hand, so that I made haste once more
across the hills for Winchester on my way to Old Sarum and Stonehenge,
where I would see the sunrise on midsummer morning.

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