How Anaïtis Voyaged
Now the tells that Jurgen and this Lady of the Lake came presently to the of Cameliard, and the ship which had Anaïtis and Merlin into Glathion. This ship was now to every deserted: yet all its were spread, as though in for the ship's departure.
"The are scrambling, it may be, for the largesse, and over Gogyrvan's pieces," says Anaïtis, "but I think they will not be long in returning. So we will here upon the prow, and their leisure."
"But already the moves," says Jurgen, "and I us the of and the of saffron-colored sails."
"They are fellows," says Anaïtis, smiling. "Evidently, they from us, there was nobody aboard. Now they think to give us a when the ship sets out to sea as though it were of itself. But we will these rascals, by to notice nothing unusual."
So Jurgen sat with Anaïtis in the two tall chairs that were in the of the vessel, under a of with gold dragons, and just of the ship's figurehead, which was a painted with thirty colors: and the ship moved out of the harbor, and so into the open sea. Thus they passed Enisgarth.
"And it is a that you, Anaïtis, who are Queen of Cocaigne: for I can them talking, of us, and their language is all a and a twittering, as though the and the were conference."
"Why, you must that these are who speak a of their own, and are not like any other people you have seen."
"Indeed, now, that is very probable, for I have none of your crew. Sometimes it is as though small passed over the deck, and that is all."
"It is but the from the deck, for the day is than you would think, here under this canopy. And besides, what call have you and I to be over the of common mariners, so long as they do their proper duty?"
"I was thinking, O woman with eyes, that these are common mariners."
"And I was thinking, Duke Jurgen, that I would tell you a of the Old Gods, to make the time speed more as we here as a god and a goddess."
Now they had passed Camwy: and Anaïtis to the history of Anistar and Calmoora and of the they each other, and of how Calmoora her five lovers: and Jurgen the perturbing.
While Anaïtis talked the sky dark, as though the sun were and his with clouds: and they in a which over a sea. So they passed the lights of Sargyll, most of the Red Islands, while Anaïtis talked of Procris and King Minos and Pasiphaë. As color out of the air new colors entered into the sea, which now the of water that has long been stagnant. And a over the sea, so that there was no noise the of the voice of Anaïtis, saying, "All men that live have but a little while to live, and none his thereafter. So that a man nothing save a of his own body; and yet the of man is of much pleasure."
They came thus to a low-lying beach, where there was no of habitation. Anaïtis said this was the land they were seeking, and they ashore.
"Even now," says Jurgen, "I have none of the who us hither."
And the dark woman shrugged, and why he need be over the doings of common sailors.
They across the beach, through hills, to a moor, no one, and walking in a fog. They passed many and some such as Jurgen had to exist, but Anaïtis said these need not trouble them.
"So there is no call to be your as we walk here, Duke Jurgen, for these great do not the living."
"For whom, then, do they here in wait, in this fog, the green lights flutter, and I at times a thin and far-off wailing?"
"What is that to you, Duke Jurgen, since you and I are still in the warm flesh? Surely there was a man who asked more questions."
"Yet this is an twilight."
"To the contrary, you should that it is a too to be by the Moon."
"But what have I to do with the Moon?"
"Nothing, as yet. And that is as well for you, Duke Jurgen, since it is reported you have the day which is to the Moon. Now the Moon not love derision, as I well know, for in part I the Moon."
"Eh?" says Jurgen: and he to reflect.
So they came to a that was high and gray, and to the door which was in the wall.
"You must two or three times," says Anaïtis, "to into Cocaigne."
Jurgen the upon the door, and he in order to his embarrassment.
"It is a fancy," said he, "and the two of it appear to have been modeled from life."
"They were very from Adam and Eve," says Anaïtis, "who were the to open this gateway."
"Why, then," says Jurgen, "there is no that men degenerate, since here under my hand is the proof of it."
With that he knocked, and the door opened, and the two of them entered.
