THE FISHERMAN AND HIS SOUL

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    thE FIShERMAN AND hIS SOUL

    [tO h.S.h. ALICE, PRINCESS OF MONACO]

    Every evening t out upon threw

    s into ter.

    not little

    at best, for it ter and black-winged wind, and rough waves

    rose up to meet it.  But he fish

    came in from to ts, and he

    took to t-place and sold them.

    Every evening  out upon t was

    so   into t.  And he

    laugo  all the fish

    t ser t o

    men, or some t t Queen will desire, and

    putting fortrengtugged at till,

    like lines of blue enamel round a vase of bronze, the long veins

    rose up on ugged at thin ropes, and nearer and

    nearer came t corks, and t rose at last to

    top of ter.

    But no fis all , nor any monster or thing of horror,

    but only a little Mermaid lying fast asleep.

    fleece of gold, and eace hair as a

    te

    ivory, and ail was of silver and pearl.  Silver and pearl was

    ail, and t; and like

    sea-she

    cold  glistened

    upon her eyelids.

    So beautiful was s whe young Fisherman saw her he was

    filled  out  close

    to he side he clasped her in his arms.  And

    led sea-gull, and

    error  eyes, and

    struggled t s escape.  But igo him,

    and  suffer o depart.

    And w she could in no way escape from him, she

    began to  me go, for I am the only

    daugher is aged and alone.

    But t let thou

    makest me a promise t w come and

    sing to me, for t to listen to the Sea-

    folk, and so ss be full.

    ilt trut me go, if I promise this? cried

    the Mermaid.

    In very trut the young Fisherman.

    So s by th of

    t her, and she

    sank doo ter, trembling range fear.

    Every evening t out upon the sea, and called

    to t of ter and sang to him.

    Round and round he wild gulls wheeled

    above her head.

    And she Sea-folk who

    drive to cave, and carry ttle calves

    on tritons who have long green beards, and

    s, and bloed conche King passes

    by; of th a roof of

    clear emerald, and a pavement of brighe gardens

    of t filigrane fans of coral wave all day

    long, and t about like silver birds, and the anemones

    cling to the ribbed yellow

    sand.  S come doh

    seas and o the Sirens

    s o stop

    t to the

    er and be droall masts,

    and to the mackerel

    s of ttle barnacles

    ravellers, and cling to the ships and

    go round and round ttlefishe

    sides of tretc their long black arms, and can

    make nig.  Silus who

    of  is carved out of an opal and steered

    he happy Mermen who play upon harps and can

    c Kraken to sleep; of ttle cch

    heir backs;

    of te foam and  their arms

    to tusks, and

    ting manes.

    And as sunny-fiso listen

    to s round them and

    caugook

    o the sea, smiling

    at him.

    Yet ouch her.

    Oftentimes o  s;

    and o seize o ter as a seal

    mig day.  And eache

    sound of er to  was her

    voice t  s and his cunning, and had no care of

    .  Vermilion-finned and he

    tunnies  by in s .  his spear lay

    by s of plaited osier y.

    ited, and eyes dim  idle in

    and listened, listening till ts crept round he

    ained h silver.

    And one evening o tle Mermaid,

    little Mermaid, I love take me for thy bridegroom, for I

    love thee.

    But t a human soul, she

    ans send ahen could I

    love thee.

    And to  use is my soul to

    me?  I cannot see it.  I may not touc.  I do not kno.

    Surely I  away from me, and much gladness shall be

    mine.  And a cry of joy broke from anding up in

    ted boat,  o the Mermaid.  I will

    send my soul away, he cried, and you shall be my bride, and I

    he sea we will dwell

    toget t sung of t show me, and

    all t t I will do, nor shall our lives be divided.

    And ttle Mermaid laughed for pleasure and hid her face in her

    hands.

    But he young Fisherman.

    tell me , and lo! it shall be done.

    Alas!  I kno, said ttle Mermaid:  the Sea-folk have

    no souls.  And so tfully at

    him.

    No morning, before the span of a

    mans  to the house of

    t and knocked times at the door.

    t t, and w

    was, co er.

    And t do-

    smelling ruso t who was

    reading out of to her, I am in love

    h me from having my

    desire.  tell me ruth

    I .  Of o me?  I cannot

    see it.  I may not touc.  I do not kno.

    And t beat , and anshou

    art mad, or  eaten of some poisonous he

    noblest part of man, and o us by God t we should

    nobly use it.  than a human soul,

    nor any eart can be  is h all

    t is in the rubies

    of t any more of this

    matter, for it is a sin t may not be forgiven.  And as for the

    Sea-folk, t, and traffic hem are

    lost also.  ts of t kno good

    from evil, and for t died.

    tears whe

    bitter , and he rose up from his knees and said

    to  and are glad, and on

    t t me be

    as the days of

    flo me, if it

    stand bet I love?

    t, knitting his

    broo

    he woodland,

    and accursed be t

    nigime, and t to lure me from my beads.  they

    tap at to my ears tale

    of tempt me emptations, and when I

    me.  t, I tell thee,

    t.  For there is no heaven nor hell, and in

    neithey praise Gods name.

    Fat not hou

    sayest.  Once in my net I snared ter of a King.  She is

    fairer tar, and he moon.  For her

    body I would give my soul, and for her love I would surrender

    ell me  me go in peace.

    A:  t, and thou

    s be lost h her.

    And  drove him from his door.

    And t doo t-place, and he

    h bowed head, as one who is in sorrow.

    And ws saw o wo

    eaco meet him, and called him

    by name, and said to   to sell?

    I  of

    me, for I am .  Of o me?  I cannot

    see it.  I may not touc.  I do not kno.

    But ts mocked at  use is a mans

    soul to us?  It is not h a clipped piece of silver.  Sell us

    thee in sea-purple, and

    put a ring upon t

    Queen.  But talk not of to us it is nought, nor has

    it any value for our service.

    And to range a this

    is!  t tellet the gold in

    ts say t it is not h a clipped

    piece of silver.  And  of t-place, and

    doo to ponder on w he should

    do.

    And at noon he remembered how one of his companions, who was a

    gatold ain young itch who

    d in a cave at the bay and was very cunning in her

    c to and ran, so eager  rid of

    followed he

    sand of tcch knew

    down h her

    red ood at the cave,

    and in  was

    blossoming.

    dye lack?   dye lack? sing up

    teep, and bent down before , whe

    le reed-pipe, and he

    mullet come sailing into t it ty boy,

    it  dye lack?   dye lack?  A storm to wreck

    ts of ricreasure ashore?  I have

    more storms tronger than

    ter I can send t

    galleys to ttom of t I ty boy,

    I  dye lack?   dye lack?  I know a flower

    t gro but I.  It has purple

    leaves, and a star in its , and its juice is as we as milk.

    S touche Queen,

    s of the

    King she whole world she would follow

    t ty boy, it  dye

    lack?   dye lack?  I can pound a toad in a mortar, and make

    brot, and stir th a dead mans hand.  Sprinkle

    it on turn into a black

    viper, and h a wheel I can draw

    tal I can s

    dye lack?   dye lack?  tell me t

    t pay me a price, pretty boy, t pay me

    a price.

    My desire is but for a little the young Fisherman,

    yet  been

    is but for a little ts  me, and

    denied me.  to thee evil,

    and .

    tco him.

    I he young Fisherman.

    tch grew pale, and shuddered, and hid her face in her blue

    mantle.  Pretty boy, pretty boy, stered, t is a

    terrible to do.

    ossed  to me,

    see it.  I may not touc.  I do not know

    it.

    tell tch, looking

    do iful eyes.

    Five pieces of gold, s, and ttled house

    in well me

    o get rid of my soul, and I  I

    possess.

    S ruck he spray of

    urn tumn leaves into gold, she answered,

    and I can o silver if I .  he

    whis world, and has

    their dominions.

    ther

    gold nor silver?

    tcroked e

    dance ty boy, s him as

    she spoke.

    Noug t? cried the young Fisherman in wonder and he rose

    to .

    Noug t, s him again.

    t sunset in some secret place her, he

    said, and after t ell me thing

    wo know.

    She moon is

    full, stered.  tened.  A

    blue bird rose screaming from its nest and circled over the dunes,

    and tted birds rustled the coarse grey grass and

    o eache sound of

    a ting t her

    o  o his

    ear.

    to-nig come to top of tain, she

    here.

    tarted and looked at her, and she showed her

    eet? he

    asked.

    It matters not, so-nigand under

    t for my coming.  If a black

    dog run torike it  will

    go ao t no answer.  he

    moon is full I sogether on

    the grass.

    But  to me to tell me how I may send my soul from

    me? ion.

    S into t, and through her red hair rippled

    t I s, she made answer.

    t t of tche young Fisherman, and

    I o-nigop of tain.

    I  t asked of me either gold or silver.

    But suc , for it is but a little

    to  his head low, and

    ran back to to joy.

    And tcc, and when he had passed from

    sered aken a mirror from a

    box of carved cedar up on a frame, and burned

    vervain on lig, and peered the coils

    of ter a time she clenched her hands in anger.

    tered, I am as fair as she is.

    And t evening, whe young Fisherman

    climbed up to top of tain, and stood under the branches

    of targe of polisal the round sea lay

    at , and ts moved in the

    little bay.  A great oo

    no ansowards

    ruck it

    away whining.

    At midnigcs.

    P upon there is some one

    ! and t, and ctered to each

    ot of all came tch her

    red reaming in tissue

    embroidered tle cap of green velvet

    was on her head.

    chey saw her,

    but so taking the

    Fis into t and began

    to dance.

    Round and round tch jumped so high

    t

    across t

    no o be seen, and  afraid.

    Faster, cried tc his neck,

    and  upon er, faster! she cried,

    and to spin beneat, and his brain grew

    troubled, and a great terror fell on hing

    t c last  under the

    s  been there before.

    It  of black velvet, cut in the Spanish

    fasrangely pale, but his lips were like a

    proud red flower.  oying in

    a listless manner he grass

    beside , and a pair of riding-gloves gauntleted

    lace, and se into a curious

    device.  A s cloak lined h sables hang from his shoulder,

    and e we h rings.  heavy eyelids

    drooped over his eyes.

    tc last

    t, and o  the

    eyes of tch laugh, and

    caug, and whirled her madly round and round.

    Suddenly a dog bayed in topped, and

    going up t dohe mans hands.  As

    ttle smile touched his proud lips, as a birds

    oucer and makes it laug there was disdain

    in it.   looking at the young Fisherman.

    Come! let us worsch, and she led him up,

    and a great desire to do as s him seized on him, and he

    followed  w knowing why he

    did it,  the Cross, and called

    upon the holy name.

    No sooner ches screamed like hawks and

    fle cched

    over to a little wood, and

    rappings came running to meet him.

    As  upon turned round, and looked at the

    young Fisherman sadly.

    And tcried to fly a the

    Fis s, and .

    Loose me, s me go.  For t named w

    s be named, and s may not be looked at.

    Nay,  I  let till t told

    me t.

    secret? said tcling ,

    and biting her foam-flecked lips.

    t, he made answer.

    ears, and so the

    Fis t!

    ightly.

    And w s free o

    ers of the sea, and as

    comely as t ders, and she fawned on

    o his.

    But  o

    not t t to me I hee for a false

    ch.

    Sree, and shuddered.  Be

    it so, stered.  It is t mine.  Do  as

    t.  And sook from tle knife t had a

    to him.

    shis serve me? he asked of her, wondering.

    S for a fes, and a look of terror came over

    hen she brushed her hair back from her forehead, and

    smiling strangely so  men call the

    body is not t is the soul.

    Stand on to t away from

    around t thy

    soul leave t will do so.

    trembled.  Is true? he murmured.

    It is true, and I  I  told t, she

    cried, and so his knees weeping.

    o

    tain  and began

    to climb down.

    And   to him and said, Lo!

    I  hy

    servant.  Send me not a evil have I done

    thee?

    And t done me no evil, but I

    here

    is  dim twilig lies

    bet trouble me not, for my love is

    calling to me.

    And  eously, but  not, but

    leapt from crag to crag, being sure-footed as a , and at

    last he sea.

    Bronze-limbed and , like a statue  by a Grecian, he

    stood on to t of the foam

    came  beckoned to  of the waves rose dim

    forms t did him homage.  Before him lay his shadow, which was

    the honey-

    coloured air.

    And o  drive me from thee,

    send me not fort a .  thy

    to take h me.

    ossed  should I love my love if

    I gave t? he cried.

    Nay, but be merciful, said , for the

    world is very cruel, and I am afraid.

    My  is my loves, arry not, but get

    thee gone.

    S love also? asked his Soul.

    Get the young

    Fisook ttle knife s handle of green

    vipers skin, and cut a

    rose up and stood before   was even as

    himself.

    back, and t to , and a feeling of

    a me see

    thy face no more.

    Nay, but  meet again, said ts voice was low

    and flute-like, and its lips  spake.

    ? cried t not

    folloo the sea?

    Once every year I o to thee, said

    t may be t t have need of me.

    need s

    be it as t, and o ters and tritons

    bletle Mermaid rose up to meet him, and

    put h.

    And tood on tchem.  And when

    to t  he

    marshes.

    And after a year o the

    sea and called to t of the deep,

    and said,  to me?

    And t I may speak hee,

    for I hings.

    So er, and leaned his

    ened.

    And to  turned my face to the

    East and journeyed.  From t comet is wise.

    Six days I journeyed, and on th day I came

    to a  is in try of tartars.  I sat down under

    tamarisk tree to ser myself from the

    land  up .  t to and

    fro over the plain like flies crawling upon a disk of polished

    copper.

    rose up from t rim of

    tartars sa, trung ted bows,

    and  upon ttle o meet it.

    to themselves behind

    t curtains.

    At tars returned, but five of them were missing,

    and of t came back not a few hey

    o tily away.

    t of a cave and peered after they

    sniffed up trils, and trotted off in the

    opposite direction.

    he plain, and

    to.  A company of mercs ed round it on

    carpets.  ted behe negroes

    cents of tanned skin upon the

    sand, and making a he prickly pear.

    As I came near ts rose up and drew

    his sword, and asked me my business.

    I ans I  I had

    escaped from tartars, o make me their slave.

    the chief smiled, and showed me five heads fixed upon long reeds of

    bamboo.

    t of God, and I answered him

    Mohammed.

    , ook me

    by t me some

    mares milk in a wooden dised.

    At daybreak arted on our journey.  I rode on a red-haired

    camel by the chief, and a runner ran before us carrying

    a spear.  the mules

    folloy camels in the

    caravan, and ty in number.

    e  from try of tartars into try of those

    whe

    heir caves.  As we

    passed over tains

    fall on us, and eacied a veil of gauze before his eyes.  As

    arro us from

    trees, and at nigime we he wild men

    beating on to to

    fruits before t o the

    tos hem warm milk in howls of brass, and

    t us go by.  times in our journey o the banks

    of t on rafts of  bladders of

    blown  us and sougo slay

    us.  rembled.

    ty levied tolls on us, but  suffer us

    to enter tes.  ttle

    maize-cakes baked in h

    dates.  For every s hem a bead of amber.

    he

    o ts.  e foughe Magadae who

    are born old, and grow younger and younger every year, and die when

    ttle croi hey

    are tigers, and paint themselves yellow and black; and

    es rees, and

    t their god,

    she Krimnians who worship a crocodile,

    and give it earrings of green glass, and feed it ter and

    fresh

    t, and run more sly than

    tle, and a third died of

    .  t murmured against me, and said t I

    tune.  I took a one

    and let it sting me.   I did not sicken they grew

    afraid.

    In ty of Illel.  It -

    time  is outside the

    air ry, for travelling in Scorpion.  e took

    tes from trees, and brake them, and drank

    t juices.  ts, and ed

    for the dawn.

    And at da te of ty.  It was

    h sea-dragons and dragons

    t tlements and

    asked us our business.  terpreter of the caravan answered

    t we h much merchandise.

    took ages, and told us t te to us

    at noon, and bade us tarry till then.

    e, and as ered in the

    people came cro of to look at us, and a crier

    round ty crying tood in the

    market-place, and ths

    and opened ts of sycamore.  And whey had ended

    task, ts set fortrange he waxed

    linen from Egypt and ted linen from try of the

    Etyre and the blue hangings from

    Sidon, the

    curious vessels of burnt clay.  From the roof of a house a company

    of cher.

    And on t day ts came and bartered h us, and on

    the

    craftsmen and tom h all

    mercs as long as tarry in ty.

    And arried for a moon, and whe moon was waning, I wearied

    and reets of ty and came to the

    garden of its god.  ts in their yellow robes moved

    silently trees, and on a pavement of black marble

    stood ts

    doors

    on tilted roof was of sea-

    green porcelain, and tting eaves ooned tle

    bells.  e doves fle, truck th

    tinkle.

    In front of temple er paved h veined

    onyx.  I lay do, and ouche

    broad leaves.  One of ts came toood behind

    me.  , one of soft serpent-skin and the

    otre of black felt

    decorated s.  Seven yelloo his

    robe, and ained imony.

    After a little wo me, and asked me my desire.

    I told  my desire o see the god.

    quot;ting,quot; said t, looking strangely at me

    ing eyes.

    quot;tell me in , and I ; I answered.

    t fringes of unic ed

    nails.  quot;t; he murmured.

    quot;tell me on w coucc; I answered.

    quot;t t,quot; he cried.

    quot;If t I   be

    bitter I  ; was my answer.

    aking me by the hand, he raised

    me up, and led me into temple.

    And in t ced on a throne of

    jasper bordered  orient pearls.  It  of

    ebony, and in stature ature of a man.  On its forehead

    s o its thighs.

    Its feet s

    loins girt  t udded h seven beryls.

    And I said to t, quot;Is t;  And he answered me,

    quot;t;

    quot;S; I cried, quot;or I ;  And I

    touc became hered.

    And t besoug;Let my lord ,

    and I will s;

    So I breat became whole

    again, and rembled and led me into the second chamber, and I

    saanding on a lotus of jade  emeralds.

    It  of ivory, and in stature ature of

    a man.  On its foree, and its breasts were

    smeared  held a crooked

    sceptre of jade, and in tal.  It ware buskins

    of brass, and its th a circle of

    selenites.

    And I said to t, quot;Is t;

    And ;t;

    quot;S; I cried, quot;or I ;  And I

    touchey became blind.

    And t besoug;Let my lord ,

    and I will s;

    So I breat came

    back to trembled again, and led me into third

    c, nor image of any kind,

    but only a mirror of round metal set on an altar of stone.

    And I said to t, quot;;

    And ;t t thou

    seest, for t reflecteth all

    t are in he face of him

    .  t reflectet, so t he who

    looketo it may be

    the Mirror of isdom.

    And there

    anyt not

    isdom.  t t.quot;  And I looked

    into t was even as o me.

    And I did a strange t ters not, for in a

    valley t is but a days journey from this place have I hidden

    t suffer me to enter into thee again

    and be t, and t be he wise men,

    and isdom so enter into thee, and none

    hou.

    But tter than isdom, he

    cried, and ttle Mermaid loves me.

    Nay, but tter the Soul.

    Love is better, anso

    t he marshes.

    And after to the shore

    of to t of

    t to me?

    And t I may speak hee,

    for I hings.

    So er, and leaned his

    ened.

    And to  turned my face to

    t is

    precious.  Six days I journeyed along t lead to the

    city of Asy red-dyed he

    pilgrims are  to go did I journey, and on the

    sevented up my eyes, and lo! ty lay at my feet,

    for it is in a valley.

    tes to ty, and in front of eace

    stands a bronze  neighe Bedouins come down from

    tains.  tch-

    tooands

    an arc sunrise rikes h an

    arro sunset hrough a horn of horn.

    to enter, topped me and asked of me who

    I  I he

    city of Mecca, whe Koran was

    embroidered in silver letters by they

    reated me to pass in.

    Inside it is even as a bazaar.  Surely t have been

    reets terns of paper

    flutter like large butterflies.  he roofs

    ted bubbles do.  In front of ths

    sit ts on silken carpets.  traight black

    beards, and turbans are covered h golden sequins, and long

    strings of amber and carved peacones glide their cool

    fingers.  Some of them sell galbanum and nard, and curious perfumes

    from thick oil of red roses,

    and myrrtle nail-sops to speak

    to throw pinches of frankincense upon a charcoal brazier

    and make t.  I saw a Syrian who held in his hands a

    t, and its

    odour as it burned he pink almond in spring.

    Ots embossed all over h creamy blue

    turquoise stones, and anklets of brass tle

    pearls, and tigers cla in gold, and t gilt

    cat, t in gold also, and earrings of pierced

    emerald, and finger-rings of ea-houses

    comes tar, and their

    at the passers-by.

    Of a trut he wine-sellers

    elbo black skins on their

    s of the wine of Schiraz, which is as

    s as  in little metal cups and strew rose

    leaves upon it.  In t-place stand tsellers, who

    sell all kinds of fruit:  ripe figs, heir bruised purple

    flesopazes, citrons and

    rose-apples and clusters of we grapes, round red-gold oranges,

    and oval lemons of green gold.  Once I sas

    trunk ed urmeric, and over its ears it

    of crimson silk cord.  It stopped opposite one of the

    booting the man only laughed.

    t not trange a people they are

    glad to them a caged bird, and

    set it free t ter, and whey are sad

    t t grow

    less.

    One evening I met some negroes carrying a hrough

    t he poles were of

    vermilion lacquer studded he windows

    ains of muslin embroidered les wings and

    iny seed-pearls, and as it passed by a pale-faced Circassian

    looked out and smiled at me.  I followed behe negroes

    eps and sco I did not care.  I felt a

    great curiosity come over me.

    At last topped at a square we here were no

    o it, only a little door like tomb.  they

    set doimes h a copper

    an of green leathrough

    t, and w on

    tepped out.  As s in, surned

    round and smiled at me again.  I had never seen any one so pale.

    urned to t for the

    it , I knew whe

    woman was, and w me.

    Certainly t  of the

    Ne into

    to pray.  h rose-leaves,

    and .  the palms of

    and h saffron.

    At sunrise  forth from his palace in a robe of silver, and

    at sunset urned to it again in a robe of gold.  the people

    flung t I

    do so.  I stood by tall of a seller of dates and ed.  hen

    ted eyebroopped.  I

    stood quite still, and made he people marvelled

    at my boldness, and counselled me to flee from ty.  I paid no

    o t  and sat range gods,

    ed.  old t

    I o leave them.

    t nigea- is in the

    Street of Pomegranates, tered and led

    me to t in they closed each door behind me,

    and put a c.  Inside  court h an arcade

    running all round.  te alabaster, set here and

    tiles.  the pillars were of green marble,

    and t of a kind of peach-blossom marble.  I had never

    seen anyt before.

    As I passed across t two veiled women looked down from a

    balcony and cursed me.  tened on, and tts of

    te of

    wrougered garden of seven

    terraces.  It ed ulip-cups and moonflowers, and

    silver-studded aloes.  Like a slim reed of crystal a fountain hung

    in trees -out torches.

    From one of tingale was singing.

    At tood a little pavilion.  As we

    approac to meet us.  t bodies

    s me heir

    yelloain of the

    guard, and in a low voice wo

    munced pastilles, ed gesture

    out of an oval box of lilac enamel.

    After a fes tain of the

    soldiers.  t back to the eunuchs following

    slorees as

    turned round, and smiled at

    me h an evil smile.

    tain of tioned me torance of

    t trembling, and drahe heavy

    curtain aside I entered in.

    tretched on a couch of dyed lion skins, and

    a gerfalcon perc.  Beood a brass-

    turbaned Nubian, naked doo t, and h heavy earrings

    in  ears.  On a table by the couch lay a

    migar of steel.

    o me, quot; is thy

    name?  Kno t t I am Emperor of ty?quot;  But I

    made him no answer.

    ed  tar, and the Nubian seized

    it, and rusruck at me  violence.  the

    blade he man fell

    spraeettered

    error and he couch.

    t to , and taking a lance from a stand of

    arms,  at me.  I caug in its flighe

    s into t me  I held up

    my  stopped in mid-air.  then he drew a dagger from a

    belt of abbed t lest

    tell of hed like a

    trampled snake, and a red foam bubbled from his lips.

    As soon as urned to me, and when he had

    s from tle napkin of

    purfled and purple silk, o me, quot;Art t, t I

    may not , t I can do thee no

    ?  I pray ty to-nig in it

    I am no longer its lord.quot;

    And I answered ;I will go for reasure.  Give me

    reasure, and I ;

    ook me by t into the

    captain of the eunuchs saw me,

    the ground in fear.

    t  walls of red

    porphe Emperor

    touc opened, and we passed down a

    corridor t  orches.  In niches upon each side

    stood great o th silver pieces.  hen

    he word

    t may not be spoken, and a granite door s

    spring, and   his eyes should

    be dazzled.

    t not believe  here

    oise-sones

    of great size piled up ored in

    coffers of elep- in leattles.

    tal, and

    tter in cups of jade.  Round green emeralds were ranged in

    order upon tes of ivory, and in one corner were silk bags

    filled, some urquoise-stones, and othe

    ivory s, and the horns of

    brass he pillars, which were of

    cedar, ones.  In t

    oval sh wine-coloured and coloured

    like grass.  And yet I old t a tit was

    there.

    And waken away his hands from before his face

    o me:  quot;treasure, and  is in

    it is to thee

    camels and camel drivers, and take

    treasure to  of thou

    desirest to go.  And to-night, for I would

    not t t there is in my

    city a man ;

    But I ans is he

    silver also is the

    these.  Nor shall I

    take aug t little ring t t on the

    finger of t;

    And t;It is but a ring of lead,quot; he cried,

    quot;nor  any value.  take treasure and

    go from my city.quot;

    quot;Nay,quot; I ans;but I ake noug t leaden ring,

    for I knoten , and for ;

    And trembled, and besoug;take all the

    treasure and go from my city.  t is mine shine

    also.quot;

    And I did a strange t ters not, for in a

    cave t is but a days journey from the

    Ring of Ric is but a days journey from t

    s for the

    kings of take it, and the worlds

    richine.

    But tter than Riches, he

    cried, and ttle Mermaid loves me.

    Nay, but tter the Soul.

    Love is better, anso

    t he marshes.

    And after to the shore

    of to t of

    t to me?

    And t I may speak hee,

    for I hings.

    So er, and leaned his

    ened.

    And to y t I knohere is an inn

    t standet th sailors who drank of

    t-coloured e bread made of barley, and

    little salt fis

    and made merry, tered to us an old man bearing a leathern

    carpet and a lute t wo horns of amber.  And when he had

    laid out t on truck he

    rings of e, and a girl whose face was veiled ran in

    and began to dance before us.  h a veil of

    gauze, but  hey

    moved over t like little we pigeons.  Never have I seen

    anyty in w a

    days journey from this place.

    Now whe words of his Soul, he

    remembered t ttle Mermaid  and could not dance.

    And a great desire came over o  is

    but a days journey, and I can return to my love, and he laughed,

    and stood up in ter, and strode tohe shore.

    And whe dry shore he laughed again, and held

    out o  cry of joy and

    ran to meet ered into he young Fisherman saw

    stretc s is

    the Soul.

    And o  us not tarry, but get  once,

    for ters t do their

    bidding.

    So te, and all t nighe

    moon, and all t day the sun, and on

    to a city.

    And to y in

    o me?

    And  is not ty, but another.

    Nevert us enter in.  So tered in and passed

    treets, and as treet of the

    Je forth in a

    booto ake t silver cup and hide

    it.

    So ook t in tunic, and they

    of ty.

    And after t ty, the young

    Fiso his Soul,

    tell me to take t, for it was an

    evil to do?

    But  peace, be at peace.

    And on to a city, and the

    young Fiso y in which she

    dances of o me?

    And  is not ty, but another.

    Nevert us enter in.  So tered in and passed

    treets, and as treet of the

    Sellers of Sandals, tanding by a

    jar of er.  And o e t child.  So he

    smote till it , and w

    of ty.

    And after t ty the young

    Fiso  tell me

    to smite t o do?

    But  peace, be at peace.

    And on to a city, and the

    young Fiso y in which she

    dances of o me?

    And  may be t it is in ty,

    t us enter in.

    So tered in and passed treets, but nowhere

    could t stood by

    its side.  And ty looked curiously at him, and

    o  us go hence, for she who

    dances e feet is not here.

    But  let us tarry, for t is

    dark and the way.

    So  -place and rested, and after a time

    t by a  wh of

    tartary, and bare a lantern of pierced  ted

    reed.  And t said to  t in the

    market-place, seeing t the bales

    corded?

    And this

    city, nor  give me ser.

    Are  all kinsmen? said t.  And did not one God

    make us?  t-chamber.

    So t to his

    es and

    entered into t brouger in a

    copper dis  was he

    mig, and set a bowl of rice and a piece of

    roasted kid before him.

    And after t  led o t-

    c rest.  And the young

    Fis was on his

    s of dyed goats-hair.

    And wh a covering of black lambs-

    wool he fell asleep.

    And t ill night, his Soul

    he

    merc, even to th, and slay him, and

    take from .

    And t tohe

    merc, and over t of t there was lying a

    curved sray by t held nine

    purses of gold.  And  ouche sword,

    and  started and awoke, and leaping

    up seized o t

    turn evil for good, and pay he shedding of blood for

    t I hee?

    And o trike him, and he

    struck  he nine purses of

    gold, and fled ily tes, and set

    o tar t is tar of morning.

    And he young Fisherman

    beat , and said to  thou bid me slay

    t and take  evil.

    But  peace, be at peace.

    Nay, cried t be at peace, for all

    t t made me to do I e.  te, and I bid

    tell me w wroughis wise.

    And  send me forto the

    me no , so I learned to do all things

    and love them.

    sayest the young Fisherman.

    t, ans well.

    tten t t me no ?  I tro.  And so

    trouble not t be at peace, for there is no pain

    t t not give a t not

    receive.

    And wrembled and said

    to  t evil, and  made me forget my

    love, and  tempted me emptations, and  set my feet in

    the ways of sin.

    And  not forgotten t whou

    didst send me forto t me no .  Come,

    let us go to anoty, and make merry, for we have nine purses

    of gold.

    But took the nine purses of gold, and flung

    trampled on them.

    Nay,  I o do hee, nor will

    I journey  even as I sent thee away before,

    so   me no good.

    And urned o ttle knife t

    rove to cut from

    t she Soul.

    Yet irred not from o his command,

    but said to  tcold thee no

    more, for I may not leave t th.

    Once in  h

    back  keep it his is his

    punis and his reward.

    And the young Fisherman grew pale and clenched his hands and cried,

    Sc sold me not t.

    Nay, anso him she worships,

    and w she will be ever.

    And w  rid

    of  it h him

    alerly.

    And o his

    Soul, I  do thy bidding, and

    close my lips t I may not speak turn to

    to the sea

    urn, and to ttle bay o sing, and

    I o ell he evil

    t  on me.

    And empted  thou

    s return to han she is.

    the manner of

    all kinds of birds and beasts.  t are painted h henna,

    and in ttle copper bells.  they laugh while

    ter is as clear as ter of

    er.  Come o t is

    trouble of t t which is

    pleasant to eat not made for ter?  Is t

    o drink?  trouble not t come o

    anoty.  ttle city here is a

    garden of tulip-trees.  And te

    peacocks and peacocks t s.  tails when

    to t

    disks.  And sheir pleasure, and

    sometimes s otimes she dances

    .  ibium, and her

    nostrils are she wings of a swallow.  From a hook in

    one of rils  is carved out of a pearl.

    S are about

    inkle like bells of silver.  And so trouble not thyself

    any more, but come o ty.

    But t  closed his lips

    ight cord bound his hands, and

    journeyed back to to the

    little bay o sing.  And ever did his

    Soul tempt   no answer, nor would he

    do any of t it sougo make o do, so great

    hin him.

    And whe cord

    from ook the seal of silence from his lips, and

    called to ttle Mermaid.  But s to hough

    o  her.

    And  but little joy

    out of t as one er

    into a broken vessel.  t a, and nought

    is given to turn.  It ter for to come h

    me, for I knohings

    are wroughere.

    But t  in a cleft of

    t tles, and abode there for

    to the Mermaid,

    and every noon o  nigime he spake

    never did s of to meet him, nor

    in any place of t for her

    in ter, in tide and

    in t are at ttom of the deep.

    And ever did empt errible

    t did it not prevail against  he power

    of his love.

    And after t hin himself, I

    empted my master ronger than I

    am.  I empt  may be t he will

    come h me.

    So o told thee of

    t turned a deaf ear to me.

    Suffer me noo tell t may be t

    t ruthis world,

    nor is ts net.  there be some who

    lack raiment, and ot

    in purple, and o and fro over the fens go

    to eache beggars go up

    and dos are empty.  the

    streets of ties s at their

    gates.  Come, let us go forthem

    not to be.   tarry o thy love,

    seeing s to t is love, t thou

    s set tore upon it?

    But t noug he power

    of o the Mermaid, and every

    noon o  nigime he spake her name.

    Yet never did s of to meet him, nor in any place

    of t for he

    rivers of t are under the waves, in

    t t makes purple, and in t the dawn

    leaves grey.

    And after to the young

    Fis nigime, and as  in ttled house alone,

    Lo! noed tempted thee

    ronger than I am.  herefore will I

    tempt t I pray to suffer me to enter thy

    , t I may be one hee even as before.

    Surely t enter, said the

    days  go t

    have much suffered.

    Alas! cried rance, so

    compassed about  of thine.

    Yet I  I could he young Fisherman.

    And as  cry of mourning from the sea,

    even t men he Sea-folk is dead.  And

    t up, and left tled house, and ran

    doo to the shore,

    bearing  e as

    t  tossed on the

    surf took it from took it from the surf,

    and t, and lying at  the young

    Fistle Mermaid.  Dead at  it

    was lying.

    eeping as one smitten ,

    and oyed

    amber of t on the sand,

    rembling

    to .  Cold   was

    t asted it ter joy.  he

    kissed t lay upon their

    cups  tears.

    And to to ts

    ears ale.   ttle hands

    round ouchin reed of

    t.  Bitter, bitter was range

    gladness was his pain.

    te foam moaned like a leper.

    ite cla the

    palace of t

    upon t tritons blew heir horns.

    Flee away, said he sea come nigher, and

    if tarriest it hee.  Flee away, for I am afraid,

    seeing t t is closed against me by reason of the

    greatness of to a place of safety.  Surely

    t not send me  a  into another world?

    But tened not to  called on the

    little Mermaid and said, Love is better than wisdom, and more

    precious t of ters of

    men.  t destroy it, nor can ters quenc.  I

    called on t da not come to my call.  the

    moon   thou no heed of me.  For evilly had

    I left to my own   ever did

    t strong, nor did aught

    prevail against it, though I have looked upon evil and looked upon

    good.  And no t dead, surely I hee

    also.

    And  o depart, but , so great was

    to cover h

    its  h

    mad lips t t was

    did break, trance and entered in, and was one

    he young Fisherman

    s waves.

    And in t  forto bless t

    roubled.  And  the musicians,

    and t

    company.

    And w reache young Fisherman

    lying drohe body of

    ttle Mermaid.  And he

    sign of t bless the

    sea nor anyt is in it.  Accursed be the Sea-folk, and

    accursed be all traffic hem.  And as for him who for

    loves sake forsook God, and so lieth his leman slain by

    Gods judgment, take up he body of his leman, and

    bury t no

    mark above t none may knohe place

    of ting.  For accursed heir lives, and

    accursed shs also.

    And the

    Field of t hey dug a deep

    pit, and laid t.

    And w was a holy day,

    t  up to t  so the people

    to t th of God.

    And wered in and

    boar was covered

    range flo never range were

    to look at, and of curious beauty, and ty troubled

    in rils.  And  glad,

    and understood not why he was glad.

    And after t abernacle, and incensed the

    monstrance t , and so the people,

    and  again beo speak to the

    people, desiring to speak to t the

    beauty of te floroubled

    in rils, and to his lips, and he

    spake not of t of the God whose name is Love.

    And w.

    And

    back to ty, and ears.  And

    to unrobe ook from he

    alb and tole.  And ood as one

    in a dream.

    And after t t them and said,

    are t stand on tar, and whey

    come?

    And t flo tell, but

    t

    trembled, and returned to his own house and prayed.

    And in t ill dahe

    monks and the swingers of

    censers, and a great company, and came to the sea, and

    blessed t are in it.  the Fauns

    also tle t dance in the woodland,

    and t-eyed t peer the

    th

    joy and  never again in the Fullers

    Field gre the field remained barren even

    as before.  Nor came to they had been

    to do, for t to anot of the sea.


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