citherns

Updated: May 26, 2025

Then from out a dark portal unperceived in the shadowed gloom of a curtained niche, there advanced a procession of young girls, fifty in all, clad in pure white and closely veiled. They carried small citherns, and arriving in front of the shrine, they knelt down in a semicircle, and very gently began to strike the short, responsive strings.

Marie Corelli - Ardath