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 The Hollow Hills




Merlin 02




Mary Stewart




(1973)




To the memory of my father

There was a boy born,
A winter king.
Before the black month
He was born,
And fled in the dark month
To find shelter
With the poor.

He shall come
With the spring
In the green month
And the golden month
And bright
Shall be the burning
Of his star.

тАФ M.S.



BOOK I

THE WAITING

1
 There was a lark singing somewhere high above. Light fell dazzling against my closed eyelids, and with it
the song, like a distant dance of water. I opened my eyes. Above me arched the sky, with its invisible
singer lost somewhere in the light and floating blue of a spring day. Everywhere was a sweet, nutty smell