Sunday, November 7, 2010

Imminent Dawn - text from the chapter, "Piper at the Gates of Dawn" in Wind in the Willows



"...Trembling he obeyed, and raised his humble head; and then, in that utter clearness of the imminent dawn, while Nature, flushed with fulness of incredible colour, seemed to hold her breath for the event, he looked in the very eyes of the Friend and Helper; saw the backward sweep of the curved horns, gleaming in the growing daylight; saw the stern, hooked nose between the kindly eyes that were looking down on them humorously, while the bearded mouth broke into a half-smile at the corners;..."

Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Williows, 1908

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