edened

Updated: May 15, 2025

For somewhere here was the cradle of the human race, fair garden of some Edened life before the "Fall," when the Earth sang for joy in her first, golden youth, and her soul expressed itself in mighty forms that remain for lesser days but a faded hierarchy of visioned gods. A living Earth went with him everywhere, with love that never breathed alarm.

Algernon Blackwood - The Centaur