Vignettes: A Miniature Journal of Whim and SentimentCrackanthorpe, Hubert
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Vignettes: A Miniature Journal of Whim and Sentiment
Crackanthorpe, Hubert
English essays -- 19th century; Europe -- Description and travel
Have you never longed to wander there, in that wonderful cloudland
beyond the sea, where, like droves of monstrous cattle, close-huddled
and drowsy, they lie the day through—the comely, milk-white summer
clouds, slow and sleek and swelling; the quick-scudding darkling clouds,
tattered with travelling across the sky; the mighty thunder-clouds,
violet and lowering; the flocks of fluffy-white baby clouds; and all the
sun’s great gaudy guard, from the daintily gilded sunset spars to the
blood-red bands that frequent the South?
Sometimes, at even-fall, when the sea lies calm in her opal tints, you
may discern the distant lines of their strange, fantastic home, vague,
phantasmagoric, like a mirage beyond the horizon.
Perhaps, after death, we may linger there, and watch them silently sail
away towards the lands we have loved long ago!...
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