Page:Kwaidan; Stories and Studies of Strange Things - Hearn - 1904.djvu/193

From Wikisource
Jump to navigation Jump to search
This page has been proofread, but needs to be validated.

As the Sunflower turns on her god, when he sets,
The same look that she turned when he rose.

Again I saw the sun-flecked shadows on that far Welsh hill; and Robert for a moment again stood beside me, with his girl's face and his curls of gold. We were looking for fairy-rings. … But all that existed of the real Robert must long ago have suffered a sea-change into something rich and strange. … Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friend. … ]

169