19 – The Litany of the Jewels

19 – The Litany of the Jewels

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...
the secret page 18

the secret page 18

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...

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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,...

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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;...

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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...