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I know of no ruin in America which nature has so resumed; it seems a part of the living rock; you cannot imagine it away. It is a single round, low tower, shaped like the tomb of Cacilia Metella. But its stately position makes it rank with the vast sisterhood of wave-washed strongholds; it might be King Arthur's Cornish Tyntagel; it might be "the teocallis tower" of Tuloom.
As the Saxon names of places, with the pleasant wholesome smack of the soil in them, Weathersfield, Thaxted, Shalford, are to the Celtic names of places, with their penetrating, lofty beauty, Velindra, Tyntagel, Caernarvon, so is the homely realism of German and Norse nature to the fairy-like loveliness of Celtic nature.
As the Saxon names of places, with the pleasant wholesome smack of the soil in them, Weathersfield, Thaxted, Shalford, are to the Celtic names of places, with their penetrating, lofty beauty, Velindra, Tyntagel, Caernarvon, so is the homely realism of German and Norse nature to the fairy-like loveliness of Celtic nature.
Perhaps on that sheet was already inscribed, "Ask me no more; the moon may draw the sea, The cloud may stoop from heaven and lake the shape, With fold on fold, of mountain or of cape;" or perhaps the page was waiting for "The Sailor-Boy," or glimpses of the great "Tyntagel," or "Lyonesse." I could not know, nor did he, what he was yet to do.
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