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Hawthorn trees laden with dark red berries, South Downs, Sussex. Guess which way the wind blows?

"........when, like an eyelid's soundless blink,
The dewfall-hawk comes crossing the shades to alight
Upon the wind-warped upland thorn, a gazer may think,
"To him this must have been a familiar sight."
(Thomas Hardy, Afterwards),