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The Diamond Lens by Fitz-James O'Brien
The Diamond Lens by Fitz-James O'Brien











The Diamond Lens by Fitz-James O

Little fairies were all this time dancing and fluttering around him, perching on his head, on his shoulders, or balancing themselves on his fingertips. They were not birds, yet they flew like birds and as each one crossed the path of his vision he felt a strange delight flash through his brain, and straightaway an interior voice seemed to sing beneath the vaulted dome of his temples a verse containing some beautiful thought. On every side of him fluttered radiant bodies, which darted to and fro through the illuminated space. None of the features of the landscape was definite yet when he looked on the vague harmonies of colour that melted one into another before his sight he was filled with a sense of inexplicable beauty. On all sides he heard mysterious melodies sung by strangely musical voices. One night, when he was thinking of this, he suddenly found himself in a beautiful country, where the light did not come from sun or moon or stars, but floated round and over and in everything like the atmosphere.

The Diamond Lens by Fitz-James O

At night, when he was in bed, and all the world was dreaming, he lay awake looking up at the old books against the walls, thinking how he could bring about the charming of her heart. mournful voice 'but at times he was very miserable, because he did not think it possible that so much happiness was reserved for him as the love of this beautiful, innocent girl. “He hoped and feared,' continued Solon, in a low.













The Diamond Lens by Fitz-James O'Brien