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The sun will rise each morning, uncaring for the woes of mankind; the sunlight will drench
the bays, the cliffs and the moorland. In the evening, shadowy fingers will creep over the land-
scape and melt into the thickening dusk; the rain will lash the clifftops and brim the streams; the
lavender will colour the salt marshes and blench in the sun as it has always done; snipe will rock-
et out of the sedge and weave into the distance; widgeon and teal will feed on the water's edge,
and, unheedingly, approach the shore with the incoming tide; nature's flautists, the oystercatch-
ers, will wheel and flash over the breaking wave-tops; ravens will tumble and seagulls will glide
over Thurba as they have done for ten thousand years; kestrels will be quartering the moorland;
lobsters and crabs will return to their weed-fringed pools as has been their wont since the ice-age;
the featureless Downs will retain their ancient silhouettes, and still harbour the lapwing and the
curlew; the ripples on the golden sands will not cease to be reshuffled by the ebb and flow of the
waves.
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