five
o'clock A.M.
you were endowed with genius ; but while its rays penetrated you , we did not see them . How could we profit by what you saw and heard , when we were blind and deaf ? To us , the voices of the deep sang no epic of grief ; the speech of the woods was not articulate ; the sea-gull 's flashing flight , and the dark swallow 's circling sweep , were facts only . Sunrise and sunset were not a paean to day and night , but five o'clock A.M. or P.M. . The seasons that came and went were changes from hot to cold ; to you , they were the moods of nature , which found response in those of your own life and soul ; her storms and calms were pulses which bore a similitude to the emotions of your heart ! Veronica 's habits of isolation clung to her ; she would never leave home . The teaching she had was obtained in Surrey .