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wings half dispread behind her She was found, the next , dead

beneath a withered tree on a bare hill-side, some miles inland They

buried her where she lay, as is their custom; for, before they die,

they instinctively search for a spot like the place of their birth, and

having found one that satisfies thes

around them, if they be women, or cross their arms over their breasts,

if they areto sleep; and so sleep

indeed The sign or cause of co, they know not what, which seizes the them within, till the body fails When a youth

and aseizes

and possesses the nearer to each other, they

wander away, each alone, into solitary places, and die of their desire

But it seems to me, that thereafter they are born babes upon our earth:

where, if, when grown, they find each other, it goes ith theo ill But of this I know nothing When I told

thes like them, but arms, they

stared, and said how bold and lorious as they are, are but undeveloped arms