The wind sounded of Mother Earth's forsaken and abandoned cries.
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The wind sounded of Mother Earth's forsaken and abandoned cries.
Behind them in the garden the little stone house brooded among the shadows. It was lonely but not forsaken. It had not yet done with dreams and laughter and the joy of life; there were to be future summers for the little stone house; meanwhile, it could wait. And over the river in purple durance the echoes bided their time.
Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man
There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tower high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.
The words emerge from her body without her realizing it, as if she were being visited by the memory of a language long forsaken.
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