Excerpt from Zaidee, Vol. 3 of 3: A Romance
In the mean time, however, a lingering tender smile of light is on the river and its trees. Though he will see them all to-morrow, the sun is loth to part with these companions whom he loves so well to embellish and caress; and the glory with which he touches this broad water ere he leaves it, is like the smile of a full heart. It is evening on the Thames; there is scarcely a breath astir to flutter the willow-leaves, but there is a musical hum of home-coming and rest, in the sweet fragrant air, which is full of this pensive and tender smiling of the sun. From these beautiful English lawns and gardens which stretch to the water's edge, you can hear the voices of home enjoyment, young tones and sweet; and the wide country beyond, which is not visible from this charmed river, throws in a far-away cadence - a tribute of sound to the stream that blesses it, since of beauty he has no need. Wherries now and then, slim and swift like greyhounds, shoot up or down, along the olive-complexioned current; and by-and-by there will come a river steamer full of pleasure-seekers, which will do no harm to the landscape.
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