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danced for joy It was only the natural shadow, that goes with every her, the shadow-head

sank down the side of the opposite hill, and crept in across the valley

towards my feet

Now that I was so joyously delivered fronised the country around me In the valley below, lay my own

castle, and the haunts of my childhood were all about me hastened home

My sisters received me with unspeakable joy; but I suppose they observed

soht touch of awe in

it, led with their joy, and reat

distress aboutof my disappearance, they had found

the floor of my room flooded; and, all that day, a wondrous and nearly

irounds I had been gone,

they told me, twenty-one days To me it seemed twenty-one years Nor

could I yet feel quite secure in ht, I

lay down once more in my own bed, I did not feel at all sure that when I

awoke, I should not find ion of Fairy Land

My dreams were incessant and perturbed; but when I did awake, I saw

clearly that I was in my own home