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I spread a square of cloth upon the sand, in the shadow of a 's ward took her seat upon it, and looked, in the golden light of the sinking sun, the very spirit of the isle By this ere alone on the beach The hunters for eggs, led by Diccon, were out upon the farthest gleaatherers, and a hty chest of Master Jereone my lord

I walked a little way into the forest, and shouted a warning to Sparrow against venturing too far When I returned to the giant tree and the cloth in the shadow of its outer branches,on the sand with a pointed shell She had not seen or heard me, and I stood behind her and read what she wrote It was my name She wrote it three tilanced swiftly up, smiled, rubbed out 's in succession "Lest I should forget to make my letters," she explained

I sat down at her feet, and for so between the heavy blooht sequins upon her dress and dark hair The blooms were not more pink than her cheeks, the recesses of the forest behind us not deeper or darker than her eyes The laughter and the song came faintly to us now The sun was low in the west, and a wonderful light slept upon the sea

"Last year we had asilence "We had Calypso's island, and I was Calypso The island was built of boards covered with green velvet, and there was a mound upon it of pink silk roses There was a deep blue painted sea below, and a deep blue painted sky above My nymphs danced around the mound of roses, while I sat upon a real rock beside the painted sea and talked with Ulysses--to wit, ht, unreal, and wearisoe and unreal as this"

She ceased to speak, and began again to write upon the sand I watched her white handwill it last?"

"I do not know Not long"

She wrote again: "If there is time at the last, when you see that it is best, will you kill me?"