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A cloud began to cover the sun slowly, wholly, shadowing the bay in

deeper green. It lay beneath him, a bowl of bitter waters.

I sang it alone in the house, holding down the long dark chords. Her door

was open: she wanted to hear my music. Silent with awe and pity I went to

her bedside. She was crying in her wretched bed.