scarlet-rayed

Updated: August 27, 2026

The great ships rolled and plunged, the tide came racing by them, blue-green water lipped with foam, carrying upon it unknown weeds, golden fruit floating, wreckage unfamiliar, a dead fish scarlet-rayed, a basket strangely wrought drifting heralds of a country of dreams.

Maurice Henry Hewlett - The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay