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When silence fell, after the lion had been chased back into his cage and the cage lowered down the lift-shaft, after the mangled corpse of Narcissus had been dragged away and sand sprinkled to hide the red patches where his blood had soaked it, I was haled forth and stood in the very center of the arena.
'Whoso confesseth Me before men, him will I also confess before the angels in heaven. ... Salute them which are of Aristobulus' household. 11. ... Greet them that be of the household of Narcissus, which are in the Lord. ROMANS xvi. 10, 11.
Desmond O'Hara, of H.M.S. Panther, boarded the steamer Narcissus via the Jacob's ladder Mr. Reardon hove overside at his command, he paused a moment, balanced on the ship's rail, and stared. "My word!" he said, and leaped to the deck, to make room for a pink-and-white middy. The pink-and-white one stared and said "My aunt!"
And as the yellow wax is melted by the fire, or the hoar frost is consumed by the heat of the sun, so did Narcissus pine away, his body wasting by degrees. And often as he sighed: "Alas!" the grieving Echo from the wood answered: "Alas!" With his last breath he looked into the water and sighed: "Ah, youth beloved, farewell!" and Echo sighed: "Farewell!"
Surely all this is not without meaning. And still deeper the meaning of that story of Narcissus, who because he could not grasp the tormenting, mild image he saw in the fountain, plunged into it and was drowned. But that same image, we ourselves see in all rivers and oceans. It is the image of the ungraspable phantom of life; and this is the key to it all.
"And so," little Hugh exclaimed, "as father said we were not to have the gardens, we thought we had better gather all the flowers, because they are our own, you know," he proceeded; "for we bought most of the bulbs with our own money; and they're all for you." Hyacinths, narcissus, wallflowers, polyanthus, they continued to be held up for her inspection.
We have lived like hermits, showing ourselves only often enough to keep alive the Maternus legend." "Well, isn't that better than risking your neck trying to make and unmake emperors?" Narcissus asked. "I risk my neck each hour I linger in Rome!" "Well then, by Hercules, take payment for the risk, and cut the risk and vanish!" exclaimed Narcissus.
And the young man looked up and recognised Him and made answer, 'But I was dead once, and you raised me from the dead. What else should I do but weep? Poems in Prose. When Narcissus died the pool of his pleasure changed from a cup of sweet waters into a cup of salt tears, and the Oreads came weeping through the woodland that they might sing to the pool and give it comfort.
"Did ever, O ye woods, one love as much as I! Have ye ever seen a lover thus pine for the sake of unrequited affection?" Then turning once more, Narcissus addressed his reflection in the limpid stream: "Why, dear youth, dost thou flee away from me? Neither a vast sea, nor a long way, nor a great mountain separates us! only a little water keeps us apart!
"The 'Palace of Narcissus'? I have heard of it." "Then you will have no trouble finding my home. Oh, you dear good little flower!" and she kissed the snowy blossom rapturously. The old gentleman surveyed her smilingly for a few moments, then said: "I will go now, and buy the frock." "And while you are away I shall tell Philine the story of Gargantua," responded the child.
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