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Updated: June 28, 2025
"Now open it," said the queen to the fisherman with the belt, "but cover your belt with your coat first." And he did so, and when he opened the copper a ball of smoke rose into the air, and suddenly the merman stood before them, and said: "The first four months that I was in prison, I swore I'd make the man as rich as a king, The man who released me.
While Dalgard willed his body motionless, the merman lay relaxed upon the ground before him as he might have floated upon his beloved waves in some secluded cove. His brilliant eyes were closed.
He haunted the steps of the unknown Power, and flitted about the walls of her temple as we mortals haunt the borders of the immortal land, knowing nothing of what lies behind the unseen veil, yet believing in an unrevealed grandeur. Or shall we say he stood like the forsaken merman, who, having no soul to be saved, yet lingered and listened outside the prayer echoing church?
One of these Schlegel has versified in the "Lay of the Sunken Castle," with the piteous tale of the spirits imprisoned; and Simrock tells us in rhyme of the merman who sits waiting for a mortal bride; while Wolfgang Müller sings of the "Castle under the Lake," where at night ghostly torches are lighted and ghostly revels are held, the story of which so fascinates the fisherman's boy who has heard of these doings from his grandmother that as he watches the enchanted waters one night his fancy plays him a cruel trick, and he plunges in to join the revellers and learn the truth.
"Is the Brownie a merman," said Tommy, wriggling himself along the beam, "that he lives under water?" "That depends on whether he has a fish's tail," said the Owl, "and this you can discover for yourself." "Well, the moon is shining, so I shall go," said Tommy.
So, when it came to his turn again, he said no, he would rather not; whereupon the Merman put the keg to his own mouth and drained it to the very dregs. Then he stretched his long arm up to the shelf, and took down another. He was now in a better humour, and began to talk of all sorts of things.
"What if the merman should take me some day to the 'pale sea-groves straight and high?" "You must never, never go. You cannot leave me, Cass!" She grasped my sleeve, and pulled me round. "How much was there for you to do in the life before us, which you talked about?" "I remember. There is much, to be sure." Fanny's quick eye caught the glitter of the watch.
Where the passage in which they stood met the main corridor, there was an agitated shouting and then sudden silence. "Down " The merman had crawled to the edge of the opening. From it rose a dank, fetid smell. Now that the noise in the corridor was stilled Dalgard could hear something: the sound of water. "How do we get down?" he questioned the merman. "It is far, there are no climbing holds "
Or a story akin to the mermaid tale of Hans Christian Andersen, or Matthew Arnold's poem of the forsaken merman, could have made this picturesque witch of the salt water truly significant, and still retained the most beautiful parts of the photoplay as it was exhibited.
It was as if the city rejected him and his kind, as if to the past that brooded here he was no more than a curious hopper or a fluttering, short-lived moth bird. "Old old and with wisdom hidden in it " he caught the trail of thought from Sssuri. And he was certain that the merman was no more at ease here than he himself was.
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