The Court of the King, and Other Studies

The Court of the King, and Other Studies

We wake with wrists and ankles jewelled still. There are many ways of entering fairyland; sometimes there is a door in the ground, and he who goes through finds himself in some great hall or carved and painted chamber. Sometimes we find the morning dew on a flower and touch the eyes with it; or, like John Dietrich, catch the cap which the fairies are flinging and put it on our own heads: and immediately the little people spring into sight, we hear the[6] sweetness of their music and see the glitter of their hidden treasure and watch the merriness of their games. The difficulty of the first method is to find the way, of the second to find the will; and John Dietrichs way is the venture of confidence. Children are continually in fairyland; grubbing in mother earth they find the door; as they tumble on the grass the morning dew touches their eyes and makes them pure. But sometimes the light of fairyland will shine suddenly about you; and you know it is no common glow though it seems but the light of day to many. So a child sauntering and playing at midday in the fields may throw back its head and look into a[7] deep blue summer sky, and be seized on a sudden by a beauty which troubles the spirit, a greatness which weighs upon the soul and wearies it, till the will fails. Or the light may shine softer at evening through the nursery window, when roofs of houses and branches of elder purple and darken against a sky all purest primrose, and draw the young spirit with a half-comprehended longing. Sometimes it comes with raptures of sunlight in a green garden; sometimes cold and strange in moonlight when existence holds its breath, and earth is lost in shadow or refined to vapour in uncertain light; sometimes with a fullness of peace in pale emerald of evening light jewelling the latticed windows[8] of an old house, till the enchantment thickens and the spirit pants with the presage of the moment, waiting for a revelation which still delays. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 61478
Author: Benson, Margaret
Release Date: Feb 22, 2020
Format: eBook
Language: English