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Updated: May 5, 2025
The roses were all gone but the foliage was still green and the little white-paled garden was bright with the sunset-hued flowers of autumn. Flowers and cottage stood bathed in the light of the golden afternoon the picture of serenity. What marked this quaint, small homestead? set back from the quiet village street tucked away behind its garden-spot from the din of the world?
There marched the crimson army of St. George, the blue army of St. Andrew, the green army of St. Patrick, the yellow army of St. David, the rich sunset-hued army of St. Denis, the striped armies of St. Anthony and St. James.
Twice, too, in this garden, the pageant of spring and summer and sunset-hued autumn had passed, the birds had flown away again and winter snows had covered all with their whiteness and their silence. And still the garden's true-lover, the poet, The Dreamer, was a wanderer, where? Oh, beautiful "Ligeia," was it not your voice that now and again whispered in the tree-tops and among the flowers?
"But," he ended, "he does really conceal his toilet." It somehow completed the thrill of my fanciful nerves that at that instant the Duke appeared again silently among the glimmering trees, with his soft foot and sunset-hued hair, coming round the corner of the house in company with his librarian.
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