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Fifty-One Tales 41The Mist

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Literature · Fantasy

Fifty-One Tales 41

The Mist

DunsanyEnglish
The mist said unto the mist: "Let us go up into the Downs." And the mist came up weeping.
And the mist went into the high places and the hollows.
And clumps of trees in the distance stood ghostly in the haze.
But I went to a prophet, one who loved the Downs, and I said to him: "Why does the mist come up weeping into the Downs when it goes into the high places and the hollows?"
And he answered: "The mist is the company of a multitude of souls who never saw the Downs, and now are dead. Therefore they come up weeping into the Downs, who are dead and never saw them."

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Sources & credits: Dunsany

Dunsany — Fifty-One Tales (Lord Dunsany) (author lived 1878–1957). Public Domain. Lord Dunsany, Fifty-One Tales; public domain in the US; text from Project Gutenberg #7838. Source

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Fifty-One Tales 42

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