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'That Very Mab'
Contributor(s): Peacock, Isaac (Preface by), Lang, Andrew (Author), Kendall, May (Author)

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 ISBN:     ISBN-13: 9798684073090
Publisher: Independently Published
OUR PRICE: $88.19  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: September 2020
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BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology
Physical Information: 0.22" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" L (0.32 lbs) 92 pages
 
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The moonlight, in wave on wave of silver, flooded all the Sacred Island. Far away and faint ran the line of the crests of Samoa, like the hills of heaven in the old ballad, or a scene in the Italian opera. Then came a voice from the Calling Place, and the smooth sea thrilled, and all the fishes leaped, and the Sacred Isle itself was moved, and shuddered to its inmost heart. Again and again came the voice, and now it rose and fell in the cadences of a magical song (or Karakia, if we must have local colour), and the words were not of this world. Then, behold, the smooth seas began to break and plash round the foremost cape of the Holy Island, and to close again behind, like water before the keel and behind the stern of a running ship, so they plashed, and broke, and fell. Next the surface was stirred far off with the gambolling and sporting of innumerable fishes; the dolphin was tumbling in the van; the flying fish hovered and shone and sank; and clearer, always, and yet more clear came the words of the song from Samoa. Clearer and louder, moment by moment, rose the voice of Queen Mab, where she stood on the Calling Place of the Gods, and chanted to the Islands, and to the sea, and the dwellers in the sea.
 
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