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⇒ Cover ⇒ Preface ⇒ Introduction ⇒ The visit ⇒ Weymouth map c.1930 ⇒ Portland map c.1930 ⇒ Works quoted ⇒ Postface |
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A visit to the Weymouth Sands of John Cowper Powys [ ⇒ continue... ] |
Never wait for the future; never regret the past; make the present serve as past and future together. |
CHESIL BEACH |
There is a spontaneous awakening of awe in the human soul when a person stands in the presence of any natural formation of the earth's surface that has no parallel in the whole circumference of the globe. The wind had shifted since his unforgettable drive up Chickerel hill and came now from the north. Thus it was prevented by the gigantic terraqueous bank itself from rousing to any further height the waves of the West Bay. But although divested of their usual grandeur by this accident, it could not be said that these waves slept in absolute tranquillity. Though no longer stirred up to terrific wrath, they did not cease from their rolling, tumbling, curving, cresting, restless activity, that immemorial sea-trouble, which, when it does cease, evokes the feeling that the waters have really been made a path for the feet of the Eternal. That there should be a rim to this vast sea-cauldron, whether the waves towered high, or ran, as now a monotonous, inverted race with the opposing wind, that there should be a rampart like this between the waters of the South Coast and what was practically the Atlantic had a monumental congruity that satisfied while it astonished the mind. |
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