47/53 Violent was the wind now rushing down the Sea of Marmara between Greece and the plains of Troy. And then it pelts the smooth domes of the mosques, and makes the cypresses, standing stiff by the turbaned tombstones of Mohammedans, creak and bristle. "Here. Will you keep it ?" (The book was the poems of Donne.) Now the agitation of the air uncovered a racing star. Now it was dark. |