Flower of the Dusk (Classic Reprint)

THE MAKER OF SONGS
The pines, darkly purple, towered against the sunset. Behind the hills, the splendid tapestry glowed and flamed, sending far messages of light to the grey East, where lay the sea, crooning itself to sleep. Bare boughs dripped rain upon the sodden earth, where the dead leaves had so long been hidden by the snow. The thousand sounds and scents of Spring at last had waked the world.

The man who stood near the edge of the cliff, quite alone, and carefully feeling the ground before him with his cane, had chosen to face the valley and dream of the glory that, perchance, trailed down in living light from some vast loom of God's. His massive head was thrown back, as though he listened, with a secret sense, for music denied to those who see.
Joyful Memories

He took off his hat and stray gleams came through the deepening shadows to rest, like an aureole, upon his silvered hair. Remembered sunsets, from beyond the darkness of more than twenty years, came back to him with divine beauty and diviner joy. Mnemosyne, that guardian angel of the soul, brought from her treasure-house gifts of laughter and tears; the laughter sweet with singing, and the bitterness of the tears eternally lost in the Water of Forgetfulness.

Table of Contents

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I- A Maker of Songs 1
II- Miss Mattie 15
III- The Tower of Cologne 28
IV- The Seventh of June 42
V- Eloise 55
VI- A Letter 68
VII- An Afternoon Call 83
VIII- A Fairy Godmother 98
IX- Taking the Chance 111
X- In the Garden 126
XI- Barbara's "To-morrow" 142
XII- Miriam 155
XIII- "Woman Suffrage" 169
XIV- Barbara's Birthday 181
XV- The Song of the Pines 194
XVI- Betrayal 209
XVII- "Never Again" 225[iv]
XVIII- The Passing of Fido 238
XIX- Th