Of course it's possible that I may have read a shuffle of them some time ago, and they'd have been poking around my mind ever since looking for an exit!
"Faintly, and as if from a great distance"
Well, it's a very nice line gjrk - the first in a poem about Silbury perhaps... :-) Could have been John Aubrey's words, writing about his work at Stonehenge and Avebury, that rang a bell -
"I have brought (them) from an inner darkness to a thin Mist."