The Faery Tales of Weir by Anna McClure Sholl
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"Nay, for only the broken-hearted know how to keep their vows," he
answered. So the doors swung open, and up the dim spiral stairs rode the Golden Archer, through bars of moonlight to the region of the great winds where again he mounted the tower. But always there is one dream left to the sorrowful, and his was, that some night the great winds would drive her soul against his breast. Then he became very still and turned his arrow northward, for the wind was coming from the far circles of the Arctic ice. Next day the sun rose red and glorious and made fires on the armor of the Golden Archer, and all the people upon the plain rubbed their eyes and cried out: "There's a new Archer on the Cathedral. Now we shall know from which horizon comes the wind!" |
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