Reprinted from The Hill of Trouble
and The Isles of Sunset

BY

ARTHUR CHRISTOPHER BENSON

FELLOW OF MAGDALENE COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE

LONDON
SMITH, ELDER & CO., 15 WATERLOO PLACE
1911

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Printed by Ballantyne, Hanson & Co.
At the Ballantyne Press, Edinburgh

"I mean by a picture a beautiful, romantic dream of something that never was, never will be—in a light better than any light that ever shone—in a land no one can define or remember, only desire—and the forms divinely beautiful—and then I wake up with the waking of Brynhild."

Sir E. Burne-Jones