The Anathemata

Middle-sea and Lear-sea (continued)

and shadow-gulls

perch the shadows of the yards across the starboard bow-wave and on the quiet beam water.

For his chariot

has crossed our course and he stands over Argolis,a southward and westing and darts back his tangent ray.

David Jones notes

additional notes

a Argolis is the eastern limb of the Peloponnese peninsula, south-west from Athens across the Saronic Gulf. So now it is afternoon, which is the link to the next paragraph.

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