flowery-arrowed

Updated: May 22, 2025

And in the silence, while all the heavenly singers rested, it so fell out, by the decree of destiny, that the flowery-arrowed god, striving to recollect a cadence that had pleased him, hummed it, as well as he could, over again, aloud; and like the unskilful imitator that he was, played havoc with his model, stumbling at the quarter tones, and singing fiat.

F. W. (Francis William) Bain - Bubbles of the Foam