The story and song of Black Roderick . She laid her spirit-hands upon thejgcold dead, and clung to it as though,^ m she would not be driven forth.^MjMany and terrifying were the sightsC$\ that met her when she opened her^eyes, after passing through the changeof death. Many and terrifying were^JJHJjthe sounds that came to her ears, and\# she feared she would be whirled away/f €3 with the great clouds that passed herv-w^JJsf^and went like smoke into the ;^)J// -°^ sne was and drenched with ther#vC/2Wfl rain that fell everywhere around her;•2 gray and misshapen were the movingfc-^masses
The story and song of Black Roderick . She laid her spirit-hands upon thejgcold dead, and clung to it as though,^ m she would not be driven forth.^MjMany and terrifying were the sightsC$\ that met her when she opened her^eyes, after passing through the changeof death. Many and terrifying were^JJHJjthe sounds that came to her ears, and\# she feared she would be whirled away/f €3 with the great clouds that passed herv-w^JJsf^and went like smoke into the ;^)J// -°^ sne was and drenched with ther#vC/2Wfl rain that fell everywhere around her;•2 gray and misshapen were the movingfc-^masses under her gaze; and only where3her hands lay holding to her deadbody did she see aught of the worldshe had left behind. There the sweetgreen grass lifted itself and a brierrose cast its blossom apart. There abee sang, calling to her a little com-fort among all the strange soundsthat filled her ears. As she listened, she found thenoises that troubled her were the. ^ 48 f<\ cries of many voices, and as she be-\]gan to see more clearly in the great^change that had come to her, sheknew the shadowy clouds rushing J/upward were the spirits of the dead/^S*on their dangerous swift way toVheaven. And as she raised her faceto follow their flight the rain fell salt)into her mouth, so she knew it wasthe repentant tears of the passing^ghosts. So crouched she in that misty ^world, seeing not the green earth \and the purple hills, but only thewhirling shapes about her on everyside, flying from earth to heaven,pursued by their black sins. And one in the valley of Baile-ata- ^Pjt? g)Cliat, looking towards the mountains,said: 0 See how the clouds fly black and ^fearful! But it was the hosts ofspirits flying upward. See, quothhe, how the lightning flashes! C± But it was the opening of Gods ^49
Size: 1396px × 1790px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, bookpublishernewyo, bookyear1906
