Volume II Part 59 (1/2)
thy Yillah is behind thee, not before Deep she dwells in blue Serenia's groves; which thou would'st not search Hautia mocks thee; away! The reef is rounded; but a strait flows between this isle and Odo, and thither its ruler must return Every hour I tarry here, so there, for whom, from blest Serenia, _I carry life and joy Away!_”
”Art still bent on finding evil for thy good?” cried Mohi--”How can Yillah harbor here?--Beware!--Let not Hautia so enthrall thee”
”Come away, come away,” cried Yoo these flowers, must needs burn juniper”
”Look on me, Media, Mohi, Yoomy Here I stand, rief they left me
Vee-Vee's conch I heard no more
CHAPTER XC Taji With Hautia
As their last echoes died away down the valley, Hautia glided near;-- zone unbound, the amaryllis in her hand Her bosom ebbed and flowed; the motes danced in the beams that darted from her eyes
”Come! let us sin, and be merry Ho! wine, wine, wine! and lapfuls of flowers! let all the cane-brakes pipe their flutes Damsels! dance; reel, swim, around me:--I, the vortex that draws all in Taji! Taji!-- as a berry, that name is juicy in my mouth!--Taji, Taji!” and in choruses, she warbled forth the sound, till it see from her syren eyes
My heart flew forth from out its bars, and soared in air; but as my hand touched Hautia's, down dropped a dead bird from the clouds
”Ha! how he sinks!--but did'st ever dive in deep waters, Taji? Did'st ever see where pearls grow?--To the cave!--dah constellations of flowers, we entered deep groves And thus, thrice frohts and days, ere we paused before the mouth of the cavern
A bow-shot frolancing in,far glea distant shadows of domes and coluolden palrouped; a sheaf of sirens in a sheaf of frame
Illuminated, the cavern shone like a Queen of Kandy's casket: full of dawns and sunsets
Fro floor, it was colualleried all round, in spiral tiers, with sparkling, coral ledges
And now, their torches held aloft, into the water the lided; and each a lotus floated; while, fro her fla after, in the lake, two meteors were quenched
Where she dived, the fla them, Hautia rose; hands, full of pearls
”Lo! Taji; all theseLife, and the Last Lost Hope of hup one pearl if thou canst”
Down, down! down, down, in the clear, sparkling water, till I see heart of a diamond; but from those bottomless depths, I uprose empty handed
”Pearls, pearls! thy pearls! thou art fresh fro Yet to Hautia, one shallow plunge reveals many Golcondas But cos”
”Show ht through the world, till we come up in oceans unknown”
”Nay, nay; but join hands, and I will take thee, where thy Past shall be forgotten; where thou wilt soon learn to love the living, not the dead”