Capitolo 82
around her as a gilded forest; here crickets chirrupped, grasshoppers
leaped, and busy ants worked, but they could not tell her that that
she craved to know.
"Now desire I go among the hills", said Annie that "she can be there."
This way on and down the green hill-sides its small feet went; you crave her
run and vainly she called; but he/she anchors any Fairy it came. Then
from the river-side she went, and churches to the cheerful dragon-flies and the
white and fresh lilies, if the Fairy had been there; but the blue waves
him rippled on the white sand to his/her feet, and any voice responded her.
Then in the forest small Annie went; and as her it passed along the
dark, I crossed fresh, the wood-flowers smiled above at its face, cheerful squirrels
it peered at to her, as they swung among the grapevines, and doves slightly cooed
as she wandered from; but nobody could respond her. Then, tired with
his/her long and useless search, she sat among the ferns, and he/she banqueted
on the rosy strawberries that are grown close to her, while looking in the meantime
the clouds in the evening of crimson that have burnt around the sun of setting.
The night-wind rustled through the branches, while cradling the flowers
to sleep; the wild birds sang their evening it hymns, and all among
the wood grew calm and anchor; paler and paler it grew light you redden him,
you lower and you kneel himself/herself/themselves bent the head of small Annie, the tall tendency of ferns
to screen her/it from the dew, the pines that whisper they sang a soft lullaby;
and when the moon in autumn of rose on, its silver light it shone on his/her child,
where, it abandoned him on the green musk, she placed dormant among the wood-flowers
in the old weak forest.
And the whole night close to her sustained the Fairy that she had looked for, and
from spell of elf and charm sent to his/her/their child rest this dream.
Small Annie dreamed that she is sat in its his/her own garden as her often had
sat before, with angry feelings in his/her heart and discourteous words on