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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: With him came the vagrom guest ... a boy almost, a boy that might pass for a girl . . . with long light hair and a tremulous, excited face, and wild eyes. Androgynes, I thought. There was soon silence. Incurious, the new-comer threw himself on his bed without undressing. But I heard him say: ? O silent stars, that gaze on Mars O liquid wells of living light When ends my day of storm and strife ? When comes my night of love and life ? When comes good night ? This settled me. I fell asleep, and dreamt I was the man who built Stonehenge. VOL. II. chapter{{Section 450 CHARTER III. THE CITIES OF LAKE AND ISLAND. Gemma quod Heliadum pollice trita notet. Et latet, et lucet Phaetontide condita gutta. Y7ES, I slept. If anyone asked me at -- what time I awoke, I can only say that I have not the remotest idea. After first dreaming that I was building Stone- henge with large blocks of stone brought in balloons from the Pyramids of Egypt?and next, that I was Ares caught in a magic golden net of Hephaistos?and next, that I was back at Five Tree Hill, with Mavis Lee by my side, where the rivulet ripples by Saint Apollonia's Chapel, I fell into thatprofound and dreamless sleep which, annihilating thought, annihilates trouble and care likewise. That night I dreamt no more. When at length I did awake, slowly and calmly, with a feeling of perfect refreshment, I found the sun high, and the room vacant. Joy had Hed; so had the androgynous lover of midnight; so had Earr)re. I cared nothing; I was heartily thankful to them for not awaking me. The air was warm; I resolved to commence the day with a swim in the lake near by. Under a noble cedar a pair-oar was moored. I got into it and rowed into deep water. Then, undressing, I took a header into th...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217410588 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217410588 |
| Weight | 0.43 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.29 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 124 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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