THE FISHERMAN AND HIS SOUL
here is a
garden of tulip-trees. And te
peacocks and peacocks t s. tails when
to t
disks. And sheir pleasure, and
sometimes s otimes she dances
. ibium, and her
nostrils are she wings of a swallow. From a hook in
one of rils is carved out of a pearl.
S are about
inkle like bells of silver. And so trouble not thyself
any more, but come o ty.
But t closed his lips
ight cord bound his hands, and
journeyed back to to the
little bay o sing. And ever did his
Soul tempt no answer, nor would he
do any of t it sougo make o do, so great
hin him.
And whe cord
from ook the seal of silence from his lips, and
called to ttle Mermaid. But s to hough
o her.
And but little joy
out of t as one er
into a broken vessel. t a, and nought
is given to turn. It ter for to come h
me, for I knohings
are wroughere.
But t in a cleft of
t tles, and abode there for
to the Mermaid,
and every noon o nigime he spake
never did s of to meet him, nor
in any place of t for her
in ter, in tide and
in t are at ttom of the deep.
And ever did empt errible
t did it not prevail against he power
of his love.
And after t hin himself, I
empted my master ronger than I
am. I empt may be t he will
come h me.