Volume I Part 18 (2/2)
At first she had wildly believed, that the na in tiion But thoughts like these were fast dying out Yet not without azed into ainst s And love, which in the eye of its object ever seeks to invest itself with some rare superiority, love, soh it was I myself who had underrets, that in the sight of Yillah, I perceiveddown to a mortal; it ith quite contrary euishment in her heart of the notion of her own spirituality For as such thoughts were chased away, she clung the more closely to me, as unto one without whom she would be desolate indeed
And now, at intervals, she was sad, and often gazed long and fixedly into the sea Nor would she say why it was, that she did so; until at length she yielded; and replied, that whatever false things Aleeht have instilled into her mind; of this much she was certain: that the whirlpool on the coast of Tedaidee prefigured her fate; that in the waters she saw lustrous eyes, and beckoning phanto the mosses
Her dreareen corse of the priest, outstretching its arms in the water, to receive pale Yillah, as she sunk in the sea
But these forebodings departed, no happiness in the universe like ours We lived and we loved; life and love were united; in gladness glided our days
CHAPTER LII World Ho!
Five suns rose and set And Yillah pining for the shore, we turned our prow due west, and next ht of land
It was innuh the azure air, and looking upon the distant sea, like haycocks in a hazy field Towering above all, and ainst its summit; a column wreathed Beyond, like purple steeps in heaven at set of sun, stretched far ahat see on, the islands grew reet us; revealing hills, vales, and peaks, grouped within a milk-white zone of reef, so vast, that in the distance all was di over these violet shores, now seeeh the air like a variegated prism, touched the verdant land, it trembled all over with dewy sparkles
Still nearer we came: our sail faintly distended as the breeze died away from our vicinity to the isles The billows rolled listlessly by, as if conscious that their long task was nigh done; while gleareat fish in a caln of paddle or canoe; no distant sood comrades, we've discovered some new constellation in the sea
Sweet Yillah, no more of Oroolia; see you not this flowery land?
Never the zone, we ca the firreen waters of the wide lagoon Mapped out in the broad shadows of the isles, and tinted here and there with the reflected hues of the sun clouds, the mild waters stretched all around us like another sky
Near by the break in the reef, was a little island, with pal sounds, that seeht of the verdure hadless, than to plant our hest hill; and fly away, island and all; trees rocking, birds caroling, flowers springing; away, away, across the aters, to Oroolia! But alas!
hoeigh the isle's coral anchor, leagues down in the fatholanced around; but all the islands seeht
”A canoe! a canoe!” cried Sa shore Instantly we sailed for the up and gazing at us, the Islanders retreated behind the headland Hardly were they out of sight, when from many a shore roundabout, other proas pushed off
Soon the water all round us was enlivened by fleets of canoes, darting hither and thither like frighted water-fowls Presently they all ued that these people could have had but little or no intercourse hites; andthe, ere any hostile suspicions ht arise, we pointed our craft for the island, whither all the canoes were now hastening
Whereupon, those which had not yet reached their destination, turned and fled; while the occupants of the proas that had landed, ran into the groves, and were lost to view
Crossing the distinct outer line of the isle's shadow on the water, we gained the shore; and gliding along itscanoe after canoe, hauled up on the silent beach, which otherwise seemed entirely innocent ofJarl and Sa the buttress of coral, whence they waded to the shore; I pushed off with Yillah into the water beyond, to await the event
Full an hour reat joy, loud shouts were heard; and there burst into view a tu was descried, mounted upon the shoulders of two brawny natives; while the Upoluan, striding on in advance, see a similar attempt to elevate him in the world
Good omens both
”Come ashore!” cried Jarl ”Aramai!” cried Samoa; while storms of interjections went up froestures danced about the beach