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And the refrain was hummed by the shawled, frayed-skirted creatures who were coming up from Talbot street, Gloucester street, Peterson's lane, and all the family-to-a-room districts in Dublin. On the skeletonish railroad crossing suspended over the Liffey, tin-hatted and bayonet-carrying British soldiers were silhouetted against the moon-whitened sky.
When Anna left him the night before, he had wandered about in the dark, not knowing quite where he went. Then the moon came up, and he found himself sitting under the eave of a barn close to a chalet where all was dark and quiet; and down below him the moon-whitened valley village its roofs and spires and little glamorous unreal lights.
Although I had not spoken to Edith Herndon more than half a dozen times, it appeared to me that it was those few short conversations that had chased the loneliness and morbid thoughts from my mind. Her very presence stimulated me in a manner that I could not express, and as I stared out across the moon-whitened ocean I started nervously at the thought which had sprung suddenly into my brain.
"Hark to her, hark to the Voice of the Beautiful Spring, Calling to come, Calling to come, Over the moon-whitened wave on a kittiwake's wing, Over the foam, Furrow and foam, Leap to her, leap, O my heart, when thou hearest her sing, Home to her, home, Home to her, home." The song ceased. There was an age-long silence. Then out of the darkness from millions of miles away a whisper,
"It comes a little puffy; when you get a heavy puff, steal all you can to windward, but keep her a good full." He stepped towards the house, paused and hailed the forecastle. "Got such a thing as a concertina forward?" said he. "Bully for you, Uncle Ned. Fetch it aft, will you?" The schooner steered very easy; and Herrick, watching the moon-whitened sails, was overpowered by drowsiness.
'It comes a little puffy; when you get a heavy puff, steal all you can to windward, but keep her a good full. He stepped towards the house, paused and hailed the forecastle. 'Got such a thing as a concertina forward? said he. 'Bully for you, Uncle Ned. Fetch it aft, will you? The schooner steered very easy; and Herrick, watching the moon-whitened sails, was overpowered by drowsiness.
The night wind swept the lake and lifted his hair, the odour of spring was intoxicating in his nostrils, small creatures of earth stirred around him, here and there a bird, restless in the delirium of mating fever, lifted its head and piped a few notes on the moon-whitened air. The frogs sang uninterruptedly at the water's edge. The Harvester stood rejoicing.
To his eyesight, twisted and fixed to a shorter focus by the drug he had taken, the steamship was little more than a blotch on the moon-whitened fog; yet he thought he could see men clambering and working on the upper davits, and the nearest boat No. 24 seemed to be swinging by the tackles.
He had driven away, and, standing on the moon-whitened road, she had watched the white dust whirl about the wheels. One of the difficulties in the indulgence of these voluptuous meditations was that they necessitated the omission of her evening prayers.
"I am incomprehensibly, immeasurably in earnest," he said, guiding her down a narrow path to a shrub-enclosed, railed-in platform, built on the steep side of a high hill, where they faced the moon-whitened waves, rolling softly in a dancing procession across the face of the great inland sea. Here he found a seat. "I've nothing to tell," he said. "I lost Mother, so I went on without her.
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