The Loom of the Desert

The Loom of the Desert

Produced by: Carlos Colon, David E. Brown, the University of California and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) There, in that land set apart for Silence, and Space, and the Great Winds, Fatea grim, still figuresat at her loom weaving the destinies of desert men and women. The shuttles shot to and fro without ceasing, and into the strange web were woven the threads of Light, and Joy, and Love; but more often were they those of Sorrow, or Death, or Sin. From the wide Gray Waste the Weaver had drawn the color and design; and so the fabrics warp and woof were of the deserts tone. Keeping this always well in mind will help you the better to understand those people of the plains, whose lives must needs be often sombre-hued. MISS GLENDOWER sat on the ranch-house piazza, shading her eyes from the white glare of the sun by holding above themin beautiful, beringed fingersthe last number of a Boston magazine. It was all very new and delightful to herthis strange, unfinished country, and each day developed fresh charm. As a spectacle it was perfectthe very desolation and silence of the desert stirred something within her that the Back Bay had never remotely roused. Viewed from the front row of the dress circle, as it were, nothing could be more fascinating to her art-loving sense than this simple, wholesome life lived out as Nature teaches, and to feel that, for the time, the big, conventional world of wise insincerities was completely shut away behind those far purple mountains out of which rose the desert sun. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 67347
Author: Strobridge, Idah Meacham
Release Date: Feb 6, 2022
Format: eBook
Language: English
Publisher: Baumgardt Publishing Company
Publication Date: 1907
Publisher Country: United States

Contributors

Illustrator: Dixon, Maynard, 1875-1946