Huge and very positive although dim, they rose betwixt me and the sky.

Between their tops I saw only stars and darkness.

I turned and looked back into the barn.
It appeared a horrible cave filled with darkness.

I remembered there were rats in it.

I dared not enter it again, even to go out at the opposite door: I forgot how soundly and peacefully I had slept in it.
I stepped out into the night with the grass of the corn-yard under my feet, the awful vault of heaven over my head, and those shadowy ricks around me.