A Dreamer's Tales

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  • It
  • was
  • a
  • cold
  • winter's
  • evening
  • late
  • in
  • the
  • Stone
  • Age;
  • the
  • sun
  • had
  • gone
  • down
  • blazing
  • over
  • the
  • plains
  • of
  • Thold;
  • there
  • were
  • no
  • clouds,
  • only
  • the
  • chill
  • blue
  • sky
  • and
  • the
  • imminence
  • of
  • stars;
  • and
  • the
  • surface
  • of
  • the
  • sleeping
  • Earth
  • began
  • to
  • harden
  • against
  • the
  • cold
  • of
  • the
  • night.
  • Presently
  • from
  • their
  • lairs
  • arose,
  • and
  • shook
  • themselves
  • and
  • went
  • stealthily
  • forth,
  • those
  • of
  • Earth's
  • children
  • to
  • whom
  • it
  • is
  • the
  • law
  • to
  • prowl
  • abroad
  • as
  • soon
  • as
  • the
  • dusk
  • has
  • fallen.
  • And
  • they
  • went
  • pattering
  • softly
  • over
  • the
  • plain,
  • and
  • their
  • eyes
  • shone
  • in
  • the
  • dark,
  • and
  • crossed
  • and
  • recrossed
  • one
  • another
  • in
  • their
  • courses.
  • Suddenly
  • there
  • became
  • manifest
  • in
  • the
  • midst
  • of
  • the
  • plain
  • that
  • fearful
  • portent
  • of
  • the
  • presence
  • of
  • Man—a
  • little
  • flickering
  • fire.
  • And
  • the
  • children
  • of
  • Earth
  • who
  • prowl
  • abroad
  • by
  • night
  • looked
  • sideways
  • at
  • it
  • and
  • snarled
  • and
  • edged away.
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