CLOUD HOWE (The Classic of Scottish Literature)

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Lewis Grassic Gibbon. CLOUD HOWE (The Classic of Scottish Literature)

CLOUD HOWE (The Classic of Scottish Literature)

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PROEM

I. CIRRUS

II. CUMULUS

III. STRATUS

IV. NIMBUS

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Lewis Grassic Gibbon

I. Cirrus

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Robert laughed, We'll make them both civil and clean. Chris said, But you haven't yet gotten the kirk, and he said, Just wait, for I very soon will.

Three Sundays later they set out for Segget, Robert to preach there and Chris to listen, it was April, quiet and brown in the fields, drowsy under a blanket of mist that cleared as the sun rose, leaving the hills corona'd in feathery wispings of clouds, Chris asked their name, and Robert said,Cirrus. They bring fine weather and they're standing still. There's little wind on the heights today.

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