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IN THE SHETLANDS
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but not the wind that one knows so well in England and hears for ever in those lines of Maud—
"And out he walked when the wind like a broken worldling wailed,
And the flying gold of the ruined woodlands flew through the air."
There can never be a wind like that here, where there are no leaves when "summer woods are leafy" and no trees "when winter storms sing i' the tree."
Plague take the wind! It is like a bombardment.
