the secret The Vanishing page 22

the secret The Vanishing page 22

THE VANISHINGPage 22 The Fair People had expected to find the newlydiscovered world uninhabited by mortals. They weresurprised, and somewhat disappointed, therefore, tofind that Native Tribespeople (whom they were neverso foolish as to call ”Indians” ) were already in...

the secret 21

The Litany of the JewelsPage 21 Dwarves’ treasure: purple Amethyst,Imperial star of Germany.The Opal of the Lowland Gnomes:A cloud of shining, shifting smoke.A Topaz is the Russian prize:The royal sunstone, frozen fire.Peridot of old Italy:Antique, and olivine,...

the secret page 20

The Litany of the JewelsPage 20 inlaid dagger hilts, coronets and combs-the Fair Peo-ple can be jealous, greedy, vain, quarrelsome, posses-sive, treacherous-almost, in a word, human.When the Thirteen Nations of the Fair People cameto the New Found Land, twelve tribes...
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...

the secret page 17

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,...