spirit in Australian fairy tales
um and flit and flee While we linger silently In our noon-tide dream.” Nothing but ice! Walls of it, peaks, spires, towers, grottoes, floors. Ice everywhere! It is of all manner of delicate hues—pale green and blue; and where the edges catch the sun it shines even brighter than the glitter of a tho…
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- 1,486
- Year
- 1,897
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- Project Gutenberg
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- Record ID
- 1486
- Source
- Project Gutenberg
- Publication
- Australian fairy tales; Atha Westbury
- Published
- 1897
- Narrative type
- Retellings and Adaptations
- Public-text label
- spirit
- Archive period
- Federation Era
- Location
- Australia (Australia): B
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um and flit and flee While we linger silently In our noon-tide dream.” Nothing but ice! Walls of it, peaks, spires, towers, grottoes, floors. Ice everywhere! It is of all manner of delicate hues—pale green and blue; and where the edges catch the sun it shines even brighter than the glitter of a thousand clustering diamonds. This is Silverhaze, the border of Fairyland. The King of Silverhaze stood at the ice-bound portal of his kingdom, when he observed the approach of a very old man. The gait of the mortal wayfarer was slow and feeble, and he often paused to rest ere he reached the gates where stood the monarch. “Who lives here,.
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