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Updated: May 10, 2025
He drew the blind, and saw with a dull acquiescence that the brightness of the May had fled. The wind was high he heard it fly past, moaning. In the watery sky, the round sun loomed silver-pale and blurred. To his fevered eye it looked like a worn dollar. He turned away shivering, and began to dress.
There was no need to look out in order to know that it had stopped snowing, that the air was windless, and that the stars were flashing silver-pale except one great golden-croziered shepherd of the thick, soft-footed, moving host. It was Christmas morning on the effulgent Shield.
And when he woke after a momentary breath of relief at the thought of the unreality of these vague horrors he woke to the heavier nightmare of reality. Oh, those terrible dollars! He drew the blind, and saw with a dull acquiescence that the brightness of May had fled. The wind was high he heard it fly past, moaning. In the watery sky, the round sun loomed silver-pale and blurred.
Sometimes the rushing steed would swim to a fairy island or siren-rock that floated silver-pale on the shining water, or jutted dark out of a creamy line of breakers; and though I knew that the knights and ladies and wondrous animals were but inhabitants of Sunset Kingdom, Limited, and that the glimmering islands and jagged rocks would dissolve by and by into cloud-wreaths, they all looked as real as the long tongue of land beyond which North Devon crouched hiding.
Lord of the fruits of Tartary Her rivers silver-pale, Lord of the hills of Tartary, Glen, thicket, wood, and dale, Her flashing stars, her scented breeze, Her trembling lakes, like foamless seas, Her bird-delighting citron-trees In every purple vale.
The strong southern light broke in splinters on the dancing water, and was mirrored in reflected ripplings, silver-pale, tremulous, over the shadowy understems of grass and loosestrife on the opposite bank. "And I never gave you anything to drink after all!" said Laura after a long, companionable silence. "Why didn't you remind me?" "Because I didn't want it.
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