swift-vanishing

Updated: June 11, 2025

Some swift-vanishing creature wolf or coyote ran along the edge of the distant bank for a fearful, curious glimpse of the persistent invasion of its venerable privacy. The sun, like a mocking challenge, was painting with flaming hand its tremendous but fleeting colour-picture on the northwest sky, where clouds unseen by day hung ever ready for the evening-hour brush of the great artist.

Luke Allan - The Return of Blue Pete