the gravedigger's attitude; and the attitude
of Whitman in the fertile field of _This Compost_ is a deal better.

SABATO SANTO.

POSTSCRIPT.

Yesterday morning, while looking through, with a view to copying out,
my Roman notes of the last eighteen years, I felt, with odd vividness,
the various myselfs who suffered and hoped while writing them. And,
even more, I felt the presence of the beloved ones who, unmentioned,
not even alluded to, had been present in those various successive
Romes of mine. All of them have changed; some are dead, others were
never really living. But while I turned over my note-books, there they
were back. Back with their feeling of _then_; back with their presence
(in one case the presence of a distant companion, to whom I could show
these things only in thought); their complete realisation, or their
half explicit charm, their still unshattered promise. Of all these I
find not a word, barely a name; nothing telling of them to others.
Only to me, in these sites, impersonal and almost eternal, on these
walls which have stood two thousand years and may stand two thousand
more, and these hillsides and roads full of the world's legend--there
appear, visible, distinct, the shadows cast by my own life; the forms
and faces of those changed, gone, dead ones; and my own.

FLORENCE, _April_, 1905.

TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE:

The edition from which this text was drawn is volume 4175 of the
Tauchnitz Edition of British Authors, where it appeared together with
_Laurus Nobilis_, also by Vernon Lee. The volume was published in
1910.

Section IV in under Spring 1902 is not named in the original book.

The following changes were made to the text:

turning out of great rag bag turning out of a great rag bag

begunie beguine

comes home to theme comes home to them

solemn, meaning full abstraction solemn, meaningful abstraction

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