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Updated: May 4, 2025
The Second Knight was asked to go to the Mountain of Horai, said to be situated in the Eastern Sea, and to bring her a branch of the wonderful tree that grew on its summit. The roots of this tree were of silver, the trunk of gold, and the branches bore as fruit white jewels. The Third Knight was told to go to China and search for the fire-rat and to bring her its skin.
"That we make to thee with harps and pipes mingled together, and sing as we come to a stand at thy well-fenced altar. "Io, &c. "For here the shielded Nurturers took thee, a child immortal, from Rhea, and with noise of beating feet hid thee away. "Io, &c. "And the Horai began to be fruitful year by year, and Dike to possess mankind and all wild living things were held about by wealth-loving Peace.
I went up to him and asked him if I had, by good chance, found the island of Mount Horai, and he answered:" "'Yes, this is Mount Horai!" "With much difficulty I climbed to the summit, here stood the golden tree growing with silver roots in the ground. The wonders of that strange land are many, and if I began to tell you about them I could never stop.
Then the man did not scruple to make up a long story. "Two years ago I took a ship and started in search of Mount Horai. After going before the wind for some time I reached the far Eastern Sea. Then a great storm arose and I was tossed about for many days, losing all count of the points of the compass, and finally we were blown ashore on an unknown island.
"Io, &c. "And the Horai began to be fruitful year by year, and Dike to possess mankind and all wild living things were held about by wealth-loving Peace. "Io, &c. "To us also leap for full jars, and leap for fleecy flocks, and leap for fields of fruit, and for hives to bring increase. "Io, &c.
It was in the period of the fourth moon that Kimiko was carried away to the home prepared for her, a place in which to forget all the unpleasant realities of life,-a sort of fairy-palace lost in the charmed repose of great shadowy silent high-walled gardens. Therein she might have felt as one reborn, by reason of good deeds, into the realm of Horai.
Accounts of the real wonders of that world would have sounded to Japanese ears like stories invented to please children, or have been classed with ancient tales of the fabled palaces of Horai. The advent of the American fleet, "the Black Ships," as they were then called, first awakened the government to some knowledge of its own weakness, and of danger from afar.
*Words of Charlotte Corday before the Convention. "I shall excuse my delay," he begins, "in fulfilling my promise of an essay on the taste for beauty in works of art, in the words of Pindar. He says to Agesidamus, a youth of Locri ideai te kalon, horai te kekramenon whom he had kept waiting for an intended ode, that a debt paid with usury is the end of reproach.
He then left his home, at the same time sending word to the Princess that he was setting out for Mount Horai in the hope of getting her a branch of the gold and silver tree which she so much wished to have. He only allowed his servants to accompany him half-way, and then sent them back.
Then he spoke of the Knight, how handsome and how brave he was to have undertaken a journey to so remote a place as the Mount of Horai. Princess Moonlight took the branch in her hand and looked at it carefully.
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