Sun and Shadow in Spain

Sun and Shadow in Spain

BY MAUD HOWE Author of Roma Beata, Two in Italy, Etc. WITH PICTURES FROM PHOTOGRAPHS AND ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOR BOSTON LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY 1908 {iv} Copyright, 1908, By Little, Brown, and Company. All rights reserved Published November, 1908 The Tudor Press BOSTON, U. S. A. {v} To ISABEL ANDERSON This Book IS Affectionately Dedicated {vii}{vi} On the silver sands of First Beach in the Island of Rhode Island, children were at play digging foundations, raising fortifications, laying out the parks and streets of a city. They worked long and hard; time was short, and the tide was coming in. Each wave, as it hissed and broke upon the beach, sent its thin line of foam a little nearer the brave outer wall of the town. Then came the inevitable inundation; the children shrieked with glee as the city wall crumbled, the church steeple toppled down, the courthouse collapsed. When nothing of the thriving sand city remained, save its trees and flowers,floating bunches of red and green seaweedthe children, tired with much digging, sat down and looked across the water. After many years the child sailed across the Atlantic from the New World to the Old, passed between the Pillars of Hercules, through the southern entrance of the ocean, and landed on the Rock of{viii} Gibraltar. Sitting there by the lighthouse of Europa Point, and looking back across the waste of waters, the child had a vision of the city on the sands. This Rock, this last spur of Europe, how many sand cities has it seen washed away by the tides of time? The Calpe of the Phnicians, the Jebel al Tarac of the Arabs, the Gibraltar of the Spaniards. Where Queen Adelaides lighthouse now sends its ray of light out into the darkness, the famous shrine of the Virgen de Europa once stood. Here, once upon a time, Jupiter, in the shape of a milk-white bull, plunged into the sea with the lovely Europa on his back, and swam with her to Crete, where she became the mother of Minos, whose ruined palace has just been discovered in that wonderful island of Crete. The land, more steadfast than the sea, keeps in its breast some of the things men prize most. In the palace of Minos they found a small, finely modeled, gold figure of a man with a bulls head, cast in memory of the son of Jupiter and the lovely Europa. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 58468
Author: Elliott, Maud Howe
Release Date: Dec 13, 2018
Format: eBook
Language: English