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Updated: August 20, 2024
I once saw a dying man who kept complaining they would not let him have hazel-nuts to munch!... and only in the depths of his fast-dimming eyes, something quivered and struggled like the torn wing of a bird wounded to death.... August 1879. Somewhere, sometime, long, long ago, I read a poem. It was soon forgotten ... but the first line has stuck in my memory
Corliss," he said, soothingly; "no matter on what grounds the grievance may be." For a moment she looked at him incredulously. "You do not know what you say. You do not understand," she muttered, fixing her fast-dimming eyes strangely upon him. "Do not give yourself any uneasiness upon that score, Mrs. Corliss," he said, gently; "try to think of something else.
Then with a look of unutterable love from her fast-dimming eyes, she closed them in death. That was why Prout, after two years of madness in a prison, had stepped on board Hetherington's schooner and asked the captain to take him away somewhere he cared not where so that he could be away from the ken of civilised and cruel mankind and try and forget the dreadful past.
The spirit seemed to do him more good than anything else. The light came back gradually to the fast-dimming eyes, and a spot of colour made its appearance in his ashen face.
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