Water, Sand, and Thin Air

The first draft of a piece for Dunwich, for the section in Chapter VI about Algernon Charles Swinburne. The working title is derived from the text:  "Water, Sand and Thin Air." The painting by Alfred Bricher, "Time and Tide", sets the mood.


"Dunwich, with its towers and many thousand souls, has dissolved into water, sand and thin air. If you look out from the cliff-top across the sea towards where the town must once have been, you can sense the immense power of emptiness. Perhaps it was for this reason that Dunwich became a place of pilgrimage for melancholy poets in the Victorian age...."

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Piano part only: