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If freedom swings too wide we are lost in air. Fashion shows how delicate the balance must be; the Parisienne observes it, holding the line of the year or the moment-with subtle touches making it her own. See her trying on a hat, consulting with the maker over every quarterinch of brim or subtle elevation, passionately conscious of that breath, that nothing, that gossamer balance which keeps the meaning of an hour's fancy steady in the perpetual fluidity of temporal affairs. This balance makes the loveliness of motion-of running or diving, or the flight of birds.
7· S MEMORY words come heavily jewelled out of their history. Feelings and thoughts have been encrusted on them in their passage through centuries and nations, and Oxus OME Rejoicing, through the hush'd Chorasmian waste Under the solitary moon;* carries a siren magic ; there is, as it were, a patina of old bronze produced by use and time. This jewelled quality of language gives richness to literature. It gives to words the same atmosphere that a house acquires by being loved and lived in-whose magnificence is not expressed but latent, and belongs neither to the builder nor to the present user of the dwelling; but has been gathered unconsciously by those who, in careless generations, have played and used and left the mark of their lives upon their symbols.
No nation can be great, or even respectable, until it achieves such freedom; and it seems to me that the fault of our literature, and of much of our thought between the two wars, was the fear and distortion of death; so that when our moment came there was a good deal of uncertainty in what should have been the intellectual leadership of England. There is an emphasis on carnage in the poets who came after 1914 • KEATS. Sonnet. DEATH which is surely out of all proportion; for the horror of death and destruction is not in the thing itself but in the causes that bring it about.