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Thus do I show them only the ice and winter of my peaks and NOT that my mountain windeth all the solar girdles around it! They hear only the whistling of my winter-storms: and know NOT that I also travel over warm seas, like longing, heavy, hot south-winds. They commiserate also my accidents and chances: but MY word saith: "Suffer the chance to come unto me: innocent is it as a little child!"
The beautiful Cephalis being then summoned to take her station at the harp, sang with feeling and simplicity the following air: Oh! who art thou, so swiftly flying? My name is Love, the child replied: Swifter I pass than south-winds sighing, Or streams, through summer vales that glide. And who art thou, his flight pursuing?
The sea floated its foam-caps upon the gray shore, and murmured its inarticulate love-stories all day to the dumb rocks above; the blue sky was bordered with saffron sunrises, pink sunsets, silver moon-fringes, or spangled with careless stars; the air was full of south-winds that had fluttered the hearts of a thousand roses and a million violets with long, deep kisses, and then flung the delicate odors abroad to tell their exploits, and set the butterflies mad with jealousy, and the bees crazy with avarice.
The south-winds are quick-witted, The schools are sad and slow, The masters quite omitted The lore we care to know." Emerson's April. "Find the 317th page, Davy, and begin at the top of the right-hand column." The boy turned the leaves of the old instruction book obediently, and then began to read in a sing-song, monotonous tone: "'One of Pag-pag'" "Pag-a-ni-ni's." "Abyss."
Or will you lie during still noons up among the farmers' fields where myriad bandrol corn-poppies flaunt over your head, and stain your finger-tips with the red berries that hang like globes of light in the palace-gardens of mites and midges, soaking yourself in hot sunshine and south-winds and heavy aromatic earth-scents?" "Come!" said Mrs.
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