3. THE WORLD, THE FLESH, AND THE DEVIL 37 4. THE ROBE OF AMETHYST 6. THE SUN-GOD-EASTER IN THE STUDIO 50 엉엉 56 7. THE SUN-God--The WaNING OF THE YEAR 88 THE ENCHANTED ISLAND. A I. THE ISLAND. MONG the myths of the morning there is one that has always seemed to me more lovely than the rest. It describes how on the long line of the Scandinavian coast, every night, when darkness has folded the land in sleep, there comes to one of the rude fishermen who dwell by the sea-shore a sudden awakening from his slumber, and a recognition of a presence which he cannot see, and a will which he cannot resist. In storm or calm, summer or winter, it is all the same; every night throughout the long year the visitor comes,—and when he comes there is nothing to do but to arise, and follow, and obey. The bridegroom must leave his bride in her new home; the father his children; Following the strange the old man his desolate hearth. messenger he is led down to the shore. There he enters his boat, casting it loose from its moorings; and as he B |