TCD MS 10515 folio 43r
[April 28th 1916]
ert after a heavy rainfall, when the skies are purified of their clouds of dust and the sands, cooled by the falling rain, are no longer vivified in an elusive mirage, then is the wilderness wonderfully clear, every object stands out firm and distinct and the distant sands fade away from vision, not in a confusion of fantastic mockenies that might belong to either earth or heaven, but in a well defined horizon where low banks of status cloud lie clear above the brown expanse and heaven joins with earth in a real line of sight.
Such an horizon limiting a broad desert recalls the boundless ocean. And the thought is intensified by the belief that, as in the open sea, so in the unbroken desert waste, the visual ray is unobstructed by no object and sight is alone limited by the volumidity of the [?]