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Nobody can tell you about that sword all that there is to be told of it; for those that know of those paths of Space on which its metals once floated, till Earth caught them one by…

Lord Dunsany The King of Elfland's Daughter magic music poetry science swords

Our lord is a magic lord as we all desired, and magical things have sought him from over there, and they all obey his hests.""It is so," said all but Gazic. And Gazic rose up in a …

Lord Dunsany The King of Elfland's Daughter magic mundane religion

Then I perceived, what I had never thought, that all these staring houses were not alike, but different one from another, because they held different dreams.

Lord Dunsany A Dreamer's Tales dreams

Humanity, let us say, is like people packed in an automobile which is traveling downhill without lights at terrific speed and driven by a four-year-old child. The signposts along t…

Lord Dunsany humanity humour progress

And she would not hold back his limbs when his heart was gone to the woods, for it is ever the way of witches with any two things to care for the more mysterious of the two.

Lord Dunsany The King of Elfland's Daughter heart mystery witches woods

Alderic, Knight of the Order of the City and the Assault, hereditary Guardian of the King's Peace of Mind, a man not unremembered among the makers of myth, pondered so long upon th…

Lord Dunsany Monster Mix avarice fantasy greed knight treasure

There passed a child of four, a small girl on a footpath over the fields, going home in the evening to Erl. They looked at each other with round eyes." Hullo," said the child." Hul…

Lord Dunsany The King of Elfland's Daughter children choices elfland

And then he went in the evening up to the nursery and told the boy how his mother was gone for a while to Elfland, to her father's palace (which may only be told of in song). And, …

Lord Dunsany The King of Elfland's Daughter elfland evening horns loss

Bricks without straw are more easily made than imagination without memories.

Lord Dunsany art imagination memories writing

And you that sought for magic in your youth but desire it not in your age, know that there is a blindness of spirit which comes from age, more black than the blindness of eye, maki…

Lord Dunsany The King of Elfland's Daughter age cynicism magic youth

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The old plural of Eye.

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