TCD MS 10515 folio 86 recto
[May 10th 1916]
So does the army advance; but not only does it move onward in a solid mass, but often it sends forth columns, which, like a river breaking up into subsidiary streams, join and rejoin, divide and redivide. These insect streams look impressively like the flow of moving water. Their motion is so regular; each little being keeps so unerringly to its own appointed place, that the uniform creeping of the column is like the rippling of a flowing stream. One column may join another column which is compelled to deviate temporarily from the true direction; the individuals of the first column will then execute an organized wheel less or more, to accomodate their flow to that of the new column in which they become absorbed. The army thus steadily advances in masses and columns, until it reaches a fer-