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mse of his fall,
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it's fragrancy with the perfumes of the rose and the honey-suckle. The fountains, in their fall, gave a more distinct
sound, and, being illuminated by the pale rays of the moon, seemed to return to their reservoirs in streams of tears.
Welleda's eyes too were overflowing, like fountains, with tears of anguish , as if going to flow through the meadows, as a
memorial of painful love.
Thus she spent, watching, the few hours of the warm night, restlessly walking to and fro' amidst the sleeping flowers,
whose inclined cups she kissed, as if taking leave of companions of better days; and at last hid her face, bedewed with
tears from the dawning morn, in a deep grotto, where the light of the day never could find access, as it received its
light from the elementary fire, which gently circulated from the internal glowing of precious stones.
Stretched out upon a gilt couch , which here used to receive her after she had taken a cooling bath, the poor
dissolate woman was suspended between sleeping and waking, contending with her anguish and the phantoms of a
frightful dream. Her lost enviable majesty appeared to her in brilliant glory, in a clear mirror of diamond, presented
to her, as it should seem, by maliciously teazing spirits, which was suddenly tarnished by a great number of darkening
spots. The cruel dream pressed even from her closed eyes burning tears, as she fancied, she could only with them
blot out those stains.
Wredmar too presented himself to her in her dream, looking sternly at her, and demanding of her the talismans
which she had sacrificed to Ferrand; yet he appeared himself to be fettered by some invisible power, and to be capable
of threatening her only.
The most consoling vision that visited her in her dream, was her mother's painful, though loving, image, which,
gradually assuming the brightness of polished silver, resembling the clear light of the full-moon, reflected it's fulgency
upon a tall vapoury phantom, which hitherto had been attending her, like a giant's shade in the shapeless darkness.
The twin-apparition was now gradually environ'd with an increasing light, and Welleda recognised with joyful awe her
powerful father, who, mildly looking at her, was coming towards her, led by her mother's hand. She started up, to
embrace the knees of her parents, weeping with joy, and — awoke, stretched out upon the marble floor, her arms
being extended towards the pillars of the entrance, which were scarcely touched by the clear refulgence, which, in the
west penetrating from gilded clouds, illuminated the alabaster portal of the deep grotto with a roseate light.
The sun, being surrounded with purple clouds, seemed to be swimming in a fiery ocean, after a sultry day
portending a late thunderstorm.
Welleda, having cooled her parched lips with only a few drops of wine, which moveable golden attendants served
in cups of topaze, instantly quitted the cool grotto, and, after an uncomfortable rest, proceeded on her way up the
height, which was thickly covered with underwood, in order to make good her promise.
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it's fragrancy with the perfumes of the rose and the honey-suckle. The fountains, in their fall, gave a more distinct
sound, and, being illuminated by the pale rays of the moon, seemed to return to their reservoirs in streams of tears.
Welleda's eyes too were overflowing, like fountains, with tears of anguish , as if going to flow through the meadows, as a
memorial of painful love.
Thus she spent, watching, the few hours of the warm night, restlessly walking to and fro' amidst the sleeping flowers,
whose inclined cups she kissed, as if taking leave of companions of better days; and at last hid her face, bedewed with
tears from the dawning morn, in a deep grotto, where the light of the day never could find access, as it received its
light from the elementary fire, which gently circulated from the internal glowing of precious stones.
Stretched out upon a gilt couch , which here used to receive her after she had taken a cooling bath, the poor
dissolate woman was suspended between sleeping and waking, contending with her anguish and the phantoms of a
frightful dream. Her lost enviable majesty appeared to her in brilliant glory, in a clear mirror of diamond, presented
to her, as it should seem, by maliciously teazing spirits, which was suddenly tarnished by a great number of darkening
spots. The cruel dream pressed even from her closed eyes burning tears, as she fancied, she could only with them
blot out those stains.
Wredmar too presented himself to her in her dream, looking sternly at her, and demanding of her the talismans
which she had sacrificed to Ferrand; yet he appeared himself to be fettered by some invisible power, and to be capable
of threatening her only.
The most consoling vision that visited her in her dream, was her mother's painful, though loving, image, which,
gradually assuming the brightness of polished silver, resembling the clear light of the full-moon, reflected it's fulgency
upon a tall vapoury phantom, which hitherto had been attending her, like a giant's shade in the shapeless darkness.
The twin-apparition was now gradually environ'd with an increasing light, and Welleda recognised with joyful awe her
powerful father, who, mildly looking at her, was coming towards her, led by her mother's hand. She started up, to
embrace the knees of her parents, weeping with joy, and — awoke, stretched out upon the marble floor, her arms
being extended towards the pillars of the entrance, which were scarcely touched by the clear refulgence, which, in the
west penetrating from gilded clouds, illuminated the alabaster portal of the deep grotto with a roseate light.
The sun, being surrounded with purple clouds, seemed to be swimming in a fiery ocean, after a sultry day
portending a late thunderstorm.
Welleda, having cooled her parched lips with only a few drops of wine, which moveable golden attendants served
in cups of topaze, instantly quitted the cool grotto, and, after an uncomfortable rest, proceeded on her way up the
height, which was thickly covered with underwood, in order to make good her promise.