awful-eyed

Updated: June 19, 2025

And the soft wind crooned and whispered in the leaves leaves that parting, showed other shapes swung high in air, whose pallid faces looked down on them, awful-eyed, from the tender green, faces drawn and haggard, with teeth agleam or open mouths whence screams had come, but very silent now until the Day of Judgment.

Jeffery Farnol - Beltane the Smith