wind-uprooted

Updated: June 22, 2025

At last the barges went no more, and there were fewer lights; shaped timbers no longer floated down the fairway, and there came instead old wind-uprooted trees in all their natural simplicity. At last I was aware that somewhere near me a blade of grass was growing, and the moss began to appear all over the dead houses. One day some thistledown went drifting over the river.

Baron Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany - A Dreamer's Tales