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before; and so for a great hour or more, and did look oft; and alway the light
became more plain to my sight; but ever to come and go, oddlywise. Yet did I
go six hours, before that I was come anywise near to it. And by this shall you
know
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how great a space off it had been. And lo! when that I did seem surely anigh
unto it, truly was it still far away in the night; and I came not indeed near
to it until that I was gone onward again for three hours more. And all that
time did I yet go downward into the night; but the Slope now did not be so
utter dark.
Now, presently, I made a pause, and stood upward to my feet, so that I should
the better perceive the light.
And lo! as I did look toward it, I heard a faraway sound in the dark, as that
something did set up a strange and monstrous piping in the night. And
immediately, I went to mine hands and knees among the stones of the
Slope, and kept myself low in the darkness, so that I should be the less plain
to be seen, did any Monster approach.
But there came nothing to trouble me, and I went downward of the Slope for yet
another hour; and all the time that I did go, the sound of the piping grew
more in the great eternity of the night upon the Slope.
And by this time was I come truly near unto the light; but yet did not behold
it plainly; for it did burn beyond certain monstrous rocks that stood between.
And I went to the left for, maybe, the half of a big mile; and all the while
that I did go, the piping made a mightier whistling in the Night; and it did
seem presently as that the earth sent forth the sound and revelry of wild
roarings. And I went the more silent; and later did kneel among three rocks,
and peered forth for a while upon the place before me.
And now, being come nigh unto the light though yet it was not unhid from
behind the great barriers of the uprising rocks, I perceived that I crouched
within the mouth of a mighty gorge; and the left side was a great way off, and
I saw it plain at whiles when the light did rise; but the light was to the
right, and it was so wondrous great that it did make clear to me that a
mountain was to that side of the gorge, and went upward into the everlasting
night, as it did seem for ever.
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And afar down the gorge, I did see the shinings of strange fires, faint and a
great way off. And so was I come at last to the bottom of the Mighty Slope.
Yet the gorge also to go downward, but not so great.
And presently I did go forward again; and so did open the point of the rocks,
as the sailors do say. And I saw now that there gushed forth a great blue
flame from the earth; and the mighty rocks stood about it, as that they were
olden giants groupt there to some strange service.
And concerning this flame I was not overmuch astonished in my Reason; for it
had seemed to me as I drew anigh, that the fire and the sound should be made
by the roaring and whistling of a burning gas that did issue forth among the
rocks. Yet, truly, though it did be a natural matter, it was yet a wondrous
sight, and set amazement on my senses; for the flame did dance, and sway
whitherward monstrously, and sometimes did seem that it dropt so low as an
hundred feet, and afterward went upward with a vast roaring unto the utter
height, and did stand mighty and blazing, maybe a full thousand feet, so that
the far side of the gorge was lit, and surely it was seven great miles off or
more; but yet did show plain and wondrous. And the light did show me the flank
of the mountain, that made the right hand side of the Gorge, to go up
measureless into the night.
And so shall you perceive that I stayed awhile among the rocks that were in
the mouth of the gorge, that I
should gaze upon this thing; but afterward I lookt this way and that way, so
that I should have a knowing of the place where I was come.
And it was a wild and stark and empty place, as you must perceive. And the far
side did be great miles off, as
I did say; and everywhere there was abundance of rock and lonesomeness. And
before me there went the great and dim length of the gorge, and there were
lights here and lights there, in a great distance, and oft as it did seem the
quiet dancing of lights in diverse places; but yet were these gone on the
instant. And ever there was a strong and vacant silence upon that place.
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And presently, after that I had looked once more unto the mighty dancing
flame, and perceived nowhere any life around it, I went onward down the quiet
gorge. And for a great way as I journeyed was my path lit by the dancing of
the blue flame; and oft should I seem to be going but dimly among the rocks,
and my shadow faint and long; and lo! the flame would leap, and all the gorge
come to a wondrous brightness, and my figure to shorten, and the shadows to be
black and strong. And so shall you perceive how I went.
And oft did I turn me about to behold the dancing of the Great Light; for it
was solemn to my spirit, even amid so much of Greatness and Eternity, to think
upon that Flame, and to conceive that it had an utter age danced there at the
foot of the Mighty Slope, unseen, through lonesome Eternities. And this I do
tell unto you;
that thereby may you have some knowledge of the strangeness and the bitter
loneliness of that place; which, in verity, did seem the expressing of all the
lonesomeness of my wanderings.
And all the time as I did go downward of the great Gorge, there sounded the
blast of the roaring, that was presently afar to my back; and the mountain
sides did catch it here and in that place, and sent it offwards with strange
and improper echoings, as of a chill piping, or oddwise as hushed whisperings
of monstrous creatures;
so that I did oft stoop to hide a little among the boulders; for truly I knew
not but that some unnatural thing called from the darkness of the mountain
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before; and so for a great hour or more, and did look oft; and alway the light
became more plain to my sight; but ever to come and go, oddlywise. Yet did I
go six hours, before that I was come anywise near to it. And by this shall you
know
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87
how great a space off it had been. And lo! when that I did seem surely anigh
unto it, truly was it still far away in the night; and I came not indeed near
to it until that I was gone onward again for three hours more. And all that
time did I yet go downward into the night; but the Slope now did not be so
utter dark.
Now, presently, I made a pause, and stood upward to my feet, so that I should
the better perceive the light.
And lo! as I did look toward it, I heard a faraway sound in the dark, as that
something did set up a strange and monstrous piping in the night. And
immediately, I went to mine hands and knees among the stones of the
Slope, and kept myself low in the darkness, so that I should be the less plain
to be seen, did any Monster approach.
But there came nothing to trouble me, and I went downward of the Slope for yet
another hour; and all the time that I did go, the sound of the piping grew
more in the great eternity of the night upon the Slope.
And by this time was I come truly near unto the light; but yet did not behold
it plainly; for it did burn beyond certain monstrous rocks that stood between.
And I went to the left for, maybe, the half of a big mile; and all the while
that I did go, the piping made a mightier whistling in the Night; and it did
seem presently as that the earth sent forth the sound and revelry of wild
roarings. And I went the more silent; and later did kneel among three rocks,
and peered forth for a while upon the place before me.
And now, being come nigh unto the light though yet it was not unhid from
behind the great barriers of the uprising rocks, I perceived that I crouched
within the mouth of a mighty gorge; and the left side was a great way off, and
I saw it plain at whiles when the light did rise; but the light was to the
right, and it was so wondrous great that it did make clear to me that a
mountain was to that side of the gorge, and went upward into the everlasting
night, as it did seem for ever.
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And afar down the gorge, I did see the shinings of strange fires, faint and a
great way off. And so was I come at last to the bottom of the Mighty Slope.
Yet the gorge also to go downward, but not so great.
And presently I did go forward again; and so did open the point of the rocks,
as the sailors do say. And I saw now that there gushed forth a great blue
flame from the earth; and the mighty rocks stood about it, as that they were
olden giants groupt there to some strange service.
And concerning this flame I was not overmuch astonished in my Reason; for it
had seemed to me as I drew anigh, that the fire and the sound should be made
by the roaring and whistling of a burning gas that did issue forth among the
rocks. Yet, truly, though it did be a natural matter, it was yet a wondrous
sight, and set amazement on my senses; for the flame did dance, and sway
whitherward monstrously, and sometimes did seem that it dropt so low as an
hundred feet, and afterward went upward with a vast roaring unto the utter
height, and did stand mighty and blazing, maybe a full thousand feet, so that
the far side of the gorge was lit, and surely it was seven great miles off or
more; but yet did show plain and wondrous. And the light did show me the flank
of the mountain, that made the right hand side of the Gorge, to go up
measureless into the night.
And so shall you perceive that I stayed awhile among the rocks that were in
the mouth of the gorge, that I
should gaze upon this thing; but afterward I lookt this way and that way, so
that I should have a knowing of the place where I was come.
And it was a wild and stark and empty place, as you must perceive. And the far
side did be great miles off, as
I did say; and everywhere there was abundance of rock and lonesomeness. And
before me there went the great and dim length of the gorge, and there were
lights here and lights there, in a great distance, and oft as it did seem the
quiet dancing of lights in diverse places; but yet were these gone on the
instant. And ever there was a strong and vacant silence upon that place.
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VIII. DOWN THE MIGHTY SLOPE
88
And presently, after that I had looked once more unto the mighty dancing
flame, and perceived nowhere any life around it, I went onward down the quiet
gorge. And for a great way as I journeyed was my path lit by the dancing of
the blue flame; and oft should I seem to be going but dimly among the rocks,
and my shadow faint and long; and lo! the flame would leap, and all the gorge
come to a wondrous brightness, and my figure to shorten, and the shadows to be
black and strong. And so shall you perceive how I went.
And oft did I turn me about to behold the dancing of the Great Light; for it
was solemn to my spirit, even amid so much of Greatness and Eternity, to think
upon that Flame, and to conceive that it had an utter age danced there at the
foot of the Mighty Slope, unseen, through lonesome Eternities. And this I do
tell unto you;
that thereby may you have some knowledge of the strangeness and the bitter
loneliness of that place; which, in verity, did seem the expressing of all the
lonesomeness of my wanderings.
And all the time as I did go downward of the great Gorge, there sounded the
blast of the roaring, that was presently afar to my back; and the mountain
sides did catch it here and in that place, and sent it offwards with strange
and improper echoings, as of a chill piping, or oddwise as hushed whisperings
of monstrous creatures;
so that I did oft stoop to hide a little among the boulders; for truly I knew
not but that some unnatural thing called from the darkness of the mountain
side. [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]