From the horizon the brightness of
the zodiacal light streamed mysteriously upward into the depth of heaven,
dimming the stars. But the brightness of them grew in splendor and
brilliancy as increasing cold gripped the world; and while the stealthy
feet of the frost raced and tinkled like a fairy tune, the starlight
flashed upon its magic silver, powdered its fabrics with light and pointed
its crystal triumphs with fire. Thus starlight and frost fell upon the
forest and the Cornish moor, beneath the long avenues of silence, and over
all the unutterable blackness of granite and dead heather. The earth slept
and dreamed dreams, as the chain of the cold tightened; all the earth
dreamed fair dreams, in night and nakedness; dreams such as forest trees
and lone elms, meadows and hills, moors and valleys, great heaths and the
waste, secret habitations of Nature, one and all do dream: of the passing
of another winter and the on-coming of another spring.
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