Richmond, W. B. (William Blake), Sir, 1842-1921 · London : Macmillan · leaf 105
ooded women and the lightly-clad children pass out of the dark church like flowers closing themselves for their nights sleep ; and they wend their way down the olive slopes to their homes, calm and ready for sweet sleep. On Sundays the chapel is filled for High Mass withmen, and women also, for… … In Retreat wherein no woman has ever been seen. And that is a prettysight, for the women always cover their heads in Umbria atthe mass ; and the head-dresses of every tint of faded silk forma mass of various colours as spring flowers, which, contrasted withthe blackened walls, the brightly-lit…
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