In Arcady . T iHESE notes, clear, soli-tary, penetrating, camelike an invitation to theboy who had entered the wood with-out thought or care or desire, saveto feel the warmth of the sun andto take what the day offered had never heard such soundsbefore, but they seemed so mucha part of the place and the timethat he accepted them as if theywere human speech. The Faunhimself, visible now through thelight growth of the birch trees,brought no surprise; he, too, be-longed to the hour and the of shyness a sense of fel-lowship grew on the boy as he came[29]. nearer the pipe and th
In Arcady . T iHESE notes, clear, soli-tary, penetrating, camelike an invitation to theboy who had entered the wood with-out thought or care or desire, saveto feel the warmth of the sun andto take what the day offered had never heard such soundsbefore, but they seemed so mucha part of the place and the timethat he accepted them as if theywere human speech. The Faunhimself, visible now through thelight growth of the birch trees,brought no surprise; he, too, be-longed to the hour and the of shyness a sense of fel-lowship grew on the boy as he came[29]. nearer the pipe and the strange fig-ure which held it. The Faun didnot cease his fitful, vagrant music;he, too, seemed to accept the boyas of a piece with the season. There was a deeper kinship be-tween the two than appeared atthe moment. Each had a paststrangely different from the other;the roots of the boys nature reach-ing back through long generationsof thinking, questioning, responsiblecreatures like himself; the roots ofthe Fauns nature deep in the un-recorded experience of thousandsof generations of living things thatknow all the ways of the wood andfield and stream and air, but hadnever thought, questioned or hadm. The Faun duty upon [30] N3S xm m s- had climbed to the point where allthis vast, confused, instinctive lifehad become conscious that it lived ;the boy had gone far on into aworld in which instinct had be-come intelligence, passion weaknessor power, appetite and desire mas-ter or servant. On that springmorning, however, they stood onthe same plane of being; for theFa
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