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So there was light in his mouth, and light was a sound at his ears, and the whole dominion of light in the valley that had such a curious name.
Dylan Thomas, 'The Tree,' from Adventures In the Skin Trade, New Directions, 1964, p. 67.
TIME: Indeterminate
PLACE: Wales
CIRCUMSTANCE: an idiot arrives in the Jarvis Valley
That night the child slept well; there was power in snow and darkness; there was unalterable music in the silence of the stars; there was a silence in the hurrying wind.
Dylan Thomas, 'The Tree,' from Adventures In The Skin Trade, New Directions, 1964, p. 68.
TIME: Indeterminate
PLACE: Wales
CIRCUMSTANCE: Christmas eve
The place was too high, peering down onto the tall hills; the place was too low, shivering up at the plumed shoulders of a new mountain. Here the wind was too wild, fuming about the silence, raising a Jewish voice out of the elder boughs; here the silence beat like a human heart. And as he sat under the cruel hills, he heard a voice that was in him cry out: Why did you bring me here?
Dylan Thomas, 'The Tree,' from Adventures In The Skin Trade, New Directions, 1964, p. 68-69.
TIME: Indeterminate
PLACE: Wales
CIRCUMSTANCE: an idiot, roaming the hills, on Christmas morning
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