- Author:
- O'Connor, V. C. Scott (Vincent Clarence Scott)
- Publication Info:
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London:
Hutchinson and co,
1904,
pg 567
Text on page 567
o* The Archipelago
brought me so far, offered its smiling hospitality. I was soon at ease in the buoyant water. At such a temperature, rich, refreshing, and cool ! I had come, it seemed, upon a bathing-pool of the gods. On such occasions the spirit reverts by subtle cadences to its primitive youth ; the youth, not alone of the individual, but of the race. So it came that I swam about, and lay on the yellow sand, just covered by the lambent
THE CAVE
fluid, wondering at the new view of the world that comes to one who lies upon his back and looks out across the level face of the sea. I shouted to the world and laughed, and raced against my dog, who was
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