Tales From Tennyson (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Excerpt from Tales From Tennyson

The grey stone urns along the edges of the terraces never crumble; the banner that droops on_ the flagstaff of the central tower never fades for wind or weather; the fires on the hearths in the Palace rooms never go out, although no hand feeds them with wood or coal; the peacock is asleep in the laurel-walk, and the parrot is asleep in his cage. Birds in the nests under the eaves sit sleeping on sleeping eggs; in the closets mantles droop sleepily from their golden pegs, and the moth that has begun to eat them sleeps too. There is not even the thin note of a gnat to be heard, and the Sleeping Palace, full of live men and women, seems more like a picture than the pictures on its walls.

Live men and women, did I say? Yes; the Palace is full of men and women, every one of them alive, and every one asleep at work or play, just as the fairy spell touched them a hundred years ago.

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