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It gave one a feeling of the benediction of twilight. And when she looked up, her eyes were the blessings poured out luminous, helpful, uplifting, restful, certain of life and immortality, full of all that which one sees not, when awake, but only when in the borderland of sleep, and memory, unleashed, tracks back on the trail of sweet days which once were.
No one who comes to the Elf of the Borderland for help in any good deed comes in vain. Thinking of this, hope rose in the breast of Creeping Shadow. Sure that he would not fail her, she determined to appeal to him at once. Like an arrow she sped out of the Cave and swept down the cliff-side and across the Plain in noiseless haste.
The girl was just reaching the borderland of maidenhood, which came all the sooner to one of southern birth and extraction, when the great change took her from being her father's childish darling to be Perronel's companion and assistant.
Only a half-crazy critic flaunts the paradox that poetry is excellent in so far as it assimilates the vagueness of music, or estimates a poet by his power of translating sense upon the borderland of nonsense into melodious words. Where poetry falls short in the comparison with other arts, is in the quality of form-giving, in the quality of sensuous concreteness.
Lord Granville believed the French Government when it solemnly assured him that "the operations about to commence on the borderland between Algeria and Tunis are meant solely to put an end to the constant inroads of the frontier clans into Algerian territory, and that the independence of the Bey and the integrity of his territory are in no way threatened."
You're falling asleep." He stumbled upstairs and went to bed. As he lay there, on the borderland of sleep, his thoughts drifted back to Tim walking with the others with his hands in his pockets the way no scout who was alert and alive should walk. "Wonder what Tim was thinking about," he muttered sleepily. Tim had been thinking about a boy who could have made it hot for him and who hadn't.
Oftener than anywhere else I resorted to the shore of the lake, to the one small part of it, that is to say, which was at the same time easily reached and comparatively unfrequented. There going one day farther than usual I found myself in the borderland of a cypress swamp.
His last words were, 'Give my farewell blessing to your family, and to the society, and 'God bless you. All is well." Patient in life, he was triumphant in death, and though there was no exultant notes in his last testimony, his faith stood the supreme test, as he drew near the borderland. He died on September 8th, 1834, aged 74 years.
"Don't for God's sake, don't!" But as she turned up her face to make her final plea, he smothered the words with his own lips upon hers. For years she had dwelt for him on the most remote borderland of unattainable dreams. Now her heart was throbbing against his own and he knew exultantly that whatever her mind might say in protest, her heart was at home there.
Others have reigned in their own spheres, in families or solitudes, or cloistered enclosures as the two Saints Elizabeth, Paula and Eustochium and all their group of friends, the great Abbesses Hildegarde, Hilda, Gertrude and others, and the chosen line of foundresses of religious orders these too have ruled the borderland, and their influence, direct or indirect, has all been in the same direction, for pacification and not for strife, for high aspiration and heavenly-mindedness, for faith and hope and love and self-devotion, and all those things for want of which the world is sick to death.
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