About noon
I looked up to the hills and thought : Now , now I am coming , as if in answer to their calling . Far above , the dwarf falcon was hacking away -- I knew where its nests were . But the sound of those falcons up in the hills sent my thoughts far away . About noon I rowed out and landed on a little island , an islet outside the harbour . There were mauve-coloured flowers with long stalks reaching to my knees ; I waded in strange growths , raspberry and coarse grass ; there were no animals , and perhaps there had never been any human being there . The sea foamed gently against the rocks and wrapped me in a veil of murmuring ; far up on the egg-cliffs , all the birds of the coast were flying and screaming . But the sea wrapped me round on all sides as in an embrace .