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The story of the Glittering plain. Pocket ed
The story of the Glittering plain Pocket ed Author:William Morris Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Plain, and the Land of Living Men. 0 my beloved, if by any way thou mightest come thither also, and we might meet there, and we two alive, how good it were ! See... more »k that land then, beloved ! seek it, whether or no we once more behold the House of the Rose, or tread the floor of the Raven dwelling. And now must even this image of me sunder from thee. Farewell !" Therewith was the dream done and the vision departed ; and Hallblithe sat up full of anguish and longing and he looked about him over the dreary land, and it was somewhat light and the sky was grown grey and cloudy, and he deemed that the dawn was come. So he leapt to his feet and stooped down over Fox, and took him by the shoulder, and shook him and said: " Faring-fellow, awake ! the dawn is come, and we have much to do." Fox sat up and growled like a dog, and rubbed his eyes and looked about him and said : " Thou hast waked me for nought: it is the false dawn of the moon that shineth now behind the clouds and casteth no shadow; it is but an hour after midnight. Go to sleep again, and let me be, else will I not be a guide to thee when the day comes." And he lay down and was asleep at once. Then Hallblithe went and lay down again full of sorrow : Yet so weary was he that he presently fell asleep, and dreamed no more. CHAPTER VI OF A DWELLING OF MAN ON THE ISLE OF RANSOM When he awoke again the sun shone on him, and the morning was calm and windless. He sat up and lookedabout him, but could see no signs of Fox save the lair wherein he had lain. So he arose to his feet and sought for him about the crannies of the rocks, and found him not; and he shouted for him, and had no answer. Then he said, " Belike he has gone down to the boat to put a thing in, or take a thing out." So he went his ways to the stair down in...« less