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Then he moved away, and with face turned from her and towards the river, gave the melody of his wondrous voice to the following lines: "Standing by the river, gazing on the river, See it paved with starbeams, heaven is at our feet; Now the wave is troubled, now the rushes quiver; Vanished is the starlight: it was a deceit.
The vast blue-black dome of the heavens above was devoid of the faintest trace of cloud, and the countless stars which spangled the immeasurable vault beamed down upon the tiny waif with a soft and mellow splendour which was repeated in the dark bosom of the scarcely ruffled ocean, where the reflected starbeams mingled, far down in its mysterious depths, with occasional faint gleams and flashes of pale greenish phosphorescent light.
Would this awful creature hunt him all night long into the daylight, or would he be forced back into the Empty House in sheer exhaustion? The thought gave him new impetus, and with powerful strokes he dashed onwards and upwards through the wilderness of space in which the only pathways were the little golden tracks of the starbeams. The governess would turn up somewhere; he was positive of that.
As the starbeams come earthward, and smile on the night, Awaking the blossoms that drooped in the day, And kindling their hearts with a dewy delight, They came to the couch where the sufferer lay. All at once, in the very height and fury of her delirium, Mrs. Chester fell back upon the pillow smiling; the hot tears rolled from her eyes, and her shaking hand was outstretched.
She took a sip at her 'cordial, watching with artistic appreciation the gay scene in the Manor dining-room the twinkling lights on the silver and glass and flowers the elegant dresses of the women, the jewels that flashed like starbeams on the lovely neck and shoulders of Lady Beaulyon, the ripples of gold-auburn in Maryllia's hair, it was a picture that radiated with a thousand colours on the eye and the brain, and was certainly one destined, so far as many of those who formed a part of it were concerned, never to be forgotten.
Their cloaks sparkled white in starlight until he was not sure but they might be starbeams, and not Forest People at all. One suddenly started up just at his elbow, and was away like the wind. Ivra began to run and to call after it. "Wild Star! Silly Wild Star! It's only I, Ivra, and my playmate. Wait for us!"
With the scent of the roses and the humbler sweet-odoured inhabitants of the wilderness; with the sound of the brook that ran through it, flowing from the heath and down the hill; with the silent starbeams, and the insects that make all the little noises they can; with the thoughts that went out of me, and returned possessed of the earth; with all these, and the sense of thought eternal, the universe was full as it could hold.
To prolong the joy I let myself slip in slowly, resting my hands on the edge of the tank, and smiling to see my body, as I lowered it, break up the shining black surface and shatter the starbeams into splinters. And the water, my Father, seemed to crave me as I craved it.
There were stray starbeams in this apartment; her eyes were accustomed to the gloom; she could dimly discern the great book-cases lining the wall, an antique chair, the glittering key-board of a grand-piano that stood apart, yet thrilling perhaps with recent harmonies, a colossal head of Antinoüs, that self-involved dreamer, stone-entranced in a calm of passion.
'You follow me, he commanded firmly, 'and you'll get in somehow. We'll get all sticky with it. Then we'll come out again and help those crying people like Tante Jeanne and.... A list of names poured out. 'They'll think us wonderful 'We shall be wonderful, whispered Monkey, obeying, yet peeping with one big brown eye. The cataract of starbeams rushed past them in a flood of gold.
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