wag-by-the-wall

Updated: May 7, 2025

Thus the generations, as they succeed one another, wave-like preserve a well-marked rhythm in their coming and going play, work, rest not to be interrupted by anything less peremptory than death or disablement. This wag-by-the-wall swings and swings its bobbed pendulum without pause, but one swing is much like the other, and their background never varies.

Jane Barlow - Strangers at Lisconnel