Excerpt from Pharais: A Romance of the Isles
Dear friend, - While you gratify me by your pleasure in this inscription, you modestly deprecate the dedication to you of this story of alien life - of that unfamiliar island life so alien in all ways from the life of cities, and, let me add, from that of the great mass of the nation to which, in the communal sense, we both belong. But in the Domhan-Tdir of friendship there are resting places where all barriers of race, training, and circumstance fall away in dust. At one of these places of peace we met, a long while ago, and found that we loved the same things, and in the same way. You have been in the charmed West yourself: have seen the gloom and shine of the mountains that throw their shadow on the sea: have heard the wave whisper along that haunted shore which none loves save with passion, and none, loving, can bear to be long parted from. You, unlike so many who delight only in the magic of sunshine and cloud, love this dear land when the mists drive across the hillsides, and the brown torrents are in spate, and the rain and the black wind make a gloom upon every loch, and fill with the dusk of storm every strath, and glen, and corrie. Not otherwise can one love it aright; "Tir nam Beann s'nan gleann' s'nan ghais each," as one of our ancient poets calls it - "The land of hills, and glens, and heroes."
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