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Palis Pipes. 287
world as if with the cold finger of a starfish ; it
is all true ; but what is 'it when compared to the
reality of which it discourses ? where hearts beat
high in April, and death strikes, and hills totter
in the earthquake, and there is a glamour over
all the objects of sight, and a thrill in all noises
for the ear, and Romance herself has made her
dwelling among men ? So we come back to
the old myth, and hear the goat-footed piper
making the music which is itself the charm and
terror of things ; and when a glen invites our
visiting footsteps, fancy that Pan leads us thither
with a gracious tremolo ; or when our hearts
quail at the thunder of the cataract, tell our-
selves that he has stamped his hoof in the nigh
thicket.
world as if with the cold finger of a starfish ; it
is all true ; but what is 'it when compared to the
reality of which it discourses ? where hearts beat
high in April, and death strikes, and hills totter
in the earthquake, and there is a glamour over
all the objects of sight, and a thrill in all noises
for the ear, and Romance herself has made her
dwelling among men ? So we come back to
the old myth, and hear the goat-footed piper
making the music which is itself the charm and
terror of things ; and when a glen invites our
visiting footsteps, fancy that Pan leads us thither
with a gracious tremolo ; or when our hearts
quail at the thunder of the cataract, tell our-
selves that he has stamped his hoof in the nigh
thicket.
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1881 [Date published] |
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Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894 [Author] C. Kegan Paul & Co. [Publisher] |
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Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894 [Author] |
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