by burnstyle | Dec 24, 2018 | American Version
The Litany of the JewelsPage 19 It is the nature (or perhaps we should say PRE-TERNATURE) of Fairies to love beautiful things: star-shine and flowers, of course, and trees; rushingstreams, dew-bright morning spider webs, and mu-sic. But of all the desires of the Fair...
by burnstyle | Dec 24, 2018 | American Version
THE SECRETPage 18 Wanderer, bearing the great bow with which he had shot dead nine blazing suns-at his side, his Golden Mother, Hsi Wang Mu, beautiful as the moon, who bore in her hands the peaches of immortality-and Tsao-shen, also, the home-loving imp, his laughing...
by burnstyle | Dec 24, 2018 | American Version
THE SECRETPage 17 the Moon, flew high and swift (by deeper magic still) the Fairy spirits of Africa. The shy in-dwellers of every ashorin, baobab, and mahogany, winged-friend of each river, of ev- ery bird, beast and insect, were wafted away on the Southern Trades,...
by burnstyle | Dec 24, 2018 | American Version
THE SECRETPage 16 Tuscan wine, lay the Tyrrhenian, inmost sea of the Middle Kingdom. Upon its sleeping surface bobbed a motley flotilla of Folletti; aboard were the Mona- ciello, those rotund and randy Monks of Naples; the Linchetti, horse-teasing sprites from Lucca;...
by burnstyle | Dec 24, 2018 | American Version
THE SECRETPage 15 Silkies and Ke/pies, over the sea, beyond Skye, to a Nova Scotia …. Down ice green fjords of Scandinavia, and away to the Land of the Eagle, then sailed the Ellefolk, in their terrible-prowed lqngships: the Nissen and the Tom- tra, those hairy...
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