Capitolo 7
succession, and it still follows, as us.
The stands of church stop on the top of this stone of granite, and on
its forehead of the west is the base to which first it owes the tourist
scaling. From the edge of this base, the eye dips down, two
one hundred and thirty-five feet, to the wide sands or the widest ocean,
as the tides recede or they advance, under an endless sky, on a
sea without rest that also us tourists can understand and you/they can feel without
books or guides; but when we turn from the western sight, and it look to
the door of church, thirty or forty fenced in by the parapet where us
standing coop, one needs to be eight centuries old to know that that this mass of
crusted architecture meant its builders, and even then one owes
you still learn to feel him/it. The man that wanders in the twelfth century
it is lost, unless he can prematurely grow young.
One can do him/it, as one can play with children. Wordsworth which
equalled of the sense I practise his/her intuitive genius, it attentively limited us
to "a season of calm time" that it is certainly best; but granting
an equitable frame of mind, an anchor could have seen of that immortal
sea" that it had been bringing us for the twelfth century of here; one can equalize
you travel there and sees his/her children that have a good time on the beach. Our sense
it is partially disuse atrophied, but still it is alive, at least
in the old people that alone, as a class, has the time to be young.
One has need to be only old enough to be young as the one wish.
From the top of this Church of Abbey one looks through the bay to
Avranches, and toward Coutances and the Cotentin,--the Constantinus
pagus,--of who beach, facing us the calls the coast of England New.
The relationship among the granite of a coast and that of the
other can be fantastic, but the relationship among the people that live
on each it is as hard and I practise a fact as the same granite. When
one enters the church, a note the four great triumphal before
benches or columns, to the intersection of the vase and cruises and