7/22 I want to sink into the summer green and not raise my head from some old poetry book! I have been marching and countermarching until I am tired. As for what you have in your mind, don't fash yourself about it! I will say that, at the moment, I think it _is_ a dead leaf.... Of course, should the Pope's staff unexpectedly begin to bud and flower--! But it mayn't--indeed, it only looks at present smooth and polished and dead.... I left the army because, naturally, I didn't want to be there in case--just in case--the staff budded. |