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Updated: June 8, 2025
All night and, except at one hour, all day also, these petals are closed over the altar itself exactly as the petals of a water-lily close over the yellow crown in stormy weather; but when the sun at midday pierces through the funnel in the dome and lights upon the golden flower, the petals open and reveal the hidden mystery, only to close again when the ray has passed. Nor is this all.
The O'Moores are by no means good letter-writers at the best of times, but he'd have let us know if he was dead, anyhow, and if he's alive, we'll be as welcome as the flowers." Before Alister could reply, he was interrupted by a message from our late captain. The Water-Lily was still in harbour, and the captain wanted the ex-mate to help him on some matters connected with the ship or her cargo.
The long black train glided along above a sea flushed with purple and crimson and gold. Like a mirage the fair city Longfellow's "white water-lily, cradled and caressed" arose, lifting her spires those "filaments of gold" above the waters. "Can it be real?" murmured Bettina. "It seems as if all must fade away before we reach it."
'Croak, croak, croak! was all he could say when he saw the pretty little girl in the walnut-shell. 'Don't talk so load, or you'll wake her, said the old toad. 'She might escape us even now; she is as light as a feather. We will put her at once on a broad water-lily leaf in the stream. That will be quite an island for her; she is so small and light.
Its vast leaves lie on the water like those of the water-lily, which they resemble and so broad and thick are they, that it is said a little girl of six years may stand on one of them, without weighing it down enough to wet her feet. But the most interesting portions of Regent's Park are the Zoological Gardens, where are kept all varieties of beasts, birds, and serpents.
The alterations are usually for the better. The daffodil is not an aquatic plant, as the poet seems to assert in the first form "The yellow-leaved water-lily, The green sheathed daffodilly, Tremble in the water chilly, Round about Shalott." Nobody can prefer to keep "Though the squally east wind keenly Blew, with folded arms serenely By the water stood the queenly Lady of Shalott."
It will be a good thing to leave off till the holidays." I had only got so far when the children ran in with a beautiful water-lily. They had scarcely deposited it in my hand when they both exclaimed in a breath: "And what are we to do now?" "You may bring me a glass of water to put it in." This was soon done, and then the question was repeated.
"He has a solid base of temperament; But as the water-lily starts and slides Upon the level in little puffs of wind, Though anchor'd to the bottom, such is he;" or this: "Arms on which the standing muscle sloped, As slopes a wild brook o'er a little stone, Running too vehemently to break upon it," and many other gems that abound in his poems.
"I could almost wish that thou wert always my dumb fairy-child, for thou art more fearful to look at when thy form resumes its beauty." And she wrote Runic rhymes against enchantment and infirmity, and threw them over the poor creature; but there was no change for the better. "One could hardly believe that she was once so small as to lie in the calyx of a water-lily," said the stork-father.
But when the biggest of them saw Tom, she darted out from the rest, and cried in the water language sharply enough, "Quick, children, here is something to eat, indeed!" and came at poor Tom, showing such a wicked pair of eyes, and such a set of sharp teeth in a grinning mouth, that Tom, who had thought her very handsome, said to himself, "Handsome is that handsome does," and slipped in between the water-lily roots as fast as he could, and then turned round and made faces at her.
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