Dawn (Haggard)

DAWN

BY

H. RIDER HAGGARD

1884

"Our natures languish incomplete;             Something obtuse in this our star              Shackles the spirit's winged feet;              But a glory moves us from afar,              And we know that we are strong and fleet." Edmund Ollier.

"Once more I behold the face of her        Whose actions all had the character         Of an inexpressible charm, expressed;         Whose movements flowed from a centre of rest,         And whose rest was that of a swallow, rife         With the instinct of reposing life;         Whose mirth had a sadness all the while         It sparkled and laughed, and whose sadness lay         In the heaven of such a crystal smile         That you longed to travel the self-same way         To the brightness of sorrow. For round her breathed         A grace like that of the general air,         Which softens the sharp extremes of things,         And connects by its subtle, invisible stair         The lowest and the highest. She interwreathed         Her mortal obscureness with so much light         Of the world unrisen, that angel's wings         Could hardly have given her greater right To float in the winds of the Infinity."                                       Edmund Ollier.

Contents

 * Chapter I
 * Chapter II
 * Chapter III
 * Chapter IV
 * Chapter V
 * Chapter VI
 * Chapter VII
 * Chapter VIII
 * Chapter IX
 * Chapter X
 * Chapter XI
 * Chapter XII
 * Chapter XIII
 * Chapter XIV
 * Chapter XV
 * Chapter XVI
 * Chapter XVII
 * Chapter XVIII
 * Chapter XIX
 * Chapter XX
 * Chapter XXI
 * Chapter XXII
 * Chapter XXIII
 * Chapter XXIV
 * Chapter XXV
 * Chapter XXVI
 * Chapter XXVII
 * Chapter XXVIII
 * Chapter XXIX
 * Chapter XXX
 * Chapter XXXI
 * Chapter XXXII
 * Chapter XXXIII
 * Chapter XXXIV
 * Chapter XXXV
 * Chapter XXXVI
 * Chapter XXXVII
 * Chapter XXXVIII
 * Chapter XXXIX
 * Chapter XL
 * Chapter XLI
 * Chapter XLII
 * Chapter XLIII
 * Chapter XLIV
 * Chapter XLV
 * Chapter XLVI
 * Chapter XLVII
 * Chapter XLVIII
 * Chapter L
 * Chapter LI
 * Chapter LII
 * Chapter LIII
 * Chapter LIV
 * Chapter LV
 * Chapter LVI
 * Chapter LVII
 * Chapter LVIII
 * Chapter LIX
 * Chapter LX
 * Chapter LXI
 * Chapter LXII
 * Chapter LXIII
 * Chapter LXIV
 * Chapter LXV
 * Chapter LXVI
 * Chapter LXVII
 * Chapter LXVIII
 * Chapter LXIX
 * Chapter LXX
 * Chapter LXXI
 * Chapter LXXII
 * Chapter LXXIII
 * Chapter LXXIV