Undine and our sylvan world; sixteen nature sketches . -t«^ p-S -^ax^stf sided, and therefore, she could not in-spire them with the gift God gave her,or, rouse in the breast an unquench-able love. Time went on, and some one, drivento a rural land by political faction orsocial ostracism, or ft-om a free desireof their own, came and wet his parch-ed lips at her shrine and when he re-turned among men they reverencedhim, as a seer,~a Tiresias; or, sat athis feet and listened to his poeticstrains,—a Homer; or, cast him fortha toy for the furies, ~a mad man, — amelancholiac,-- a fool. And, except fo
Undine and our sylvan world; sixteen nature sketches . -t«^ p-S -^ax^stf sided, and therefore, she could not in-spire them with the gift God gave her,or, rouse in the breast an unquench-able love. Time went on, and some one, drivento a rural land by political faction orsocial ostracism, or ft-om a free desireof their own, came and wet his parch-ed lips at her shrine and when he re-turned among men they reverencedhim, as a seer,~a Tiresias; or, sat athis feet and listened to his poeticstrains,—a Homer; or, cast him fortha toy for the furies, ~a mad man, — amelancholiac,-- a fool. And, except for short occasionalvisits. Undine lived entirely alone—andwaited—and waited—soulless! Years went by — centuries — weknow not, how many. In their long-6- ^^
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