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Then as the sky stirred with flush upon flush of warm rosy light, it passed from misty pearl to opal with heart of flame, from opal to gleaming sapphire. The earth called, the fields called, the river called that pied piper to whose music a man cannot stop his ears. It was with me as with the Canterbury pilgrims: "So priketh hem nature in hir corages; Than longen folk to gon on pilgrimages."
It should seem that their coming was dated by the height of the sun, which betrays them into unthrifty matrimony; "So priketh hem Nature in hir corages;" but their going is another matter. The chimney swallows leave us early, for example, apparently so soon as their latest fledglings are firm enough of wing to attempt the long rowing-match that is before them.
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