Excerpts from the Book 'The Hollow Land':

... hearts, making those sad whom God has not made sad, alas, alas. What chance for any of us to find the Hollow Land. What time even to look for ...
... yet in the prime of life, and was a tall, powerful man. He held the lantern to my face, then smiled, and said, The banners hang low. I gave the countersign, ...
... Joseph's crown was red, But Jesus' crown was diamond That lit up all the bed Mariae Virginis. So they had some guards after all this was clearly ...
... their spears held out I missed the man I had marked, or hit him rather just on the top of the helm he bent back, and the spear slipped over his head, ...
... the midst of the hall over against the dais. He said, Unbind her, Florian. They did so, she raised her face, and glared defiance at us all, as though ...
... hat and this blue cross and lily were the bearings of our house, called De Liliis. Now we had seen Red Harald pass through the streets, with a white ...
... from the altar, and began to fidget with the fastenings of his rich robes. And they made a lane for us up to the west door then I put on my helm ...
... FIorian. said Arnald, for God's sake stop. as every one else is stopping to look at the hills yonder I always thought there was a curse upon us. ...
... up in his stirrups, and shouted, Hurrah for the Lilies. Mary rings. Mary rings. I shouted, though I did not know the reason for his exultation: ...
... He cares for us yet, for note that He suffers the wicked to go their own ways pretty much moreover brave men, brothers, ought to be the masters of simulacra ...
... when I looked I no longer doubted any of those wild tales of glamour concerning Goliath's Land and for though the rocks were the same, and though the ...
... a long way down, but some of it lay on her knees: I said white raiment, but long spikes of light scarlet went down from the throat, lost here and ...
... something else, burst some blood-vessel within my throat, and we both stood there with the blood running from us on to the grass and summer flowers. She ...
... dreams but failure at last, and death, happier so in the Hollow Land.. She grew so pitying as she gazed at his dead face that I began to weep again ...
... only this I know, that we abode continually in the Hollow Land until I lost it. Moreover this I can tell you. Margaret was walking with me, as she often ...
... and four of these I knew well, though I did not then remember the names of those that had borne them. They were Red Harald, Swanhilda, Amald, and myself. ...
... for it was not strange that, together with other matters, I should have forgotten the art of fence: but yet, as I went on, and sometimes bounded ...
... so utterly doleful in the man's white face, and the blood running all about him, and washing off the stains of paint from his face and hands, ...
... and said:. Florian, I must stop here do you go on to the Hollow Land. Farewell.. Farewell. And then I went on, never turning back, and him ...
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