silvernesses

Updated: June 9, 2025

Even thus, perhaps, I reasoned, in the days of old, did the broken multitudes of Xerxes return by the shores of the golden Archipelago; and the Hellespont shone as peacefully as these silvernesses of earth and firmament. The dulness of history became invested with new intelligence. I filled in the details of a thousand routs conned in school-days, when only the dry outlines lay before me.

George Alfred Townsend - Campaigns of a Non-Combatant,: and His Romaunt Abroad During the War