As I Have Said, There Is A
Chapel, But I Doubt Whether It Is Attended During This Season With
The Regularity With Which The Parish Churches Of Ronco, Altanca,
&C., Are Attended During The Rest Of The Year.
The young people, I
am sure, like these annual visits to the high places, and will be
hardly weaned from them.
Happily the hay will be always there, and
will have to be cut by some one, and the old people will send the
young ones.
As I was thinking of these things, I found myself going off into a
doze, and thought the burnished man from the furnace came up and
sat beside me, and laid his hand upon my shoulder. Then I saw the
green slopes that rise all round the lake were much higher than I
had thought; they went up thousands of feet, and there were pine
forests upon them, while two large glaciers came down in streams
that ended in a precipice of ice, falling sheer into the lake. The
edges of the mountains against the sky were rugged and full of
clefts, through which I saw thick clouds of dust being blown by the
wind as though from the other side of the mountains.
And as I looked, I saw that this was not dust, but people coming in
crowds from the other side, but so small as to be visible at first
only as dust. And the people became musicians, and the mountainous
amphitheatre a huge orchestra, and the glaciers were two noble
armies of women-singers in white robes, ranged tier above tier
behind each other, and the pines became orchestral players, while
the thick dust-like cloud of chorus-singers kept pouring in through
the clefts in the precipices in inconceivable numbers.
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