Возвращение на родину

III. The Custom of the Country

           FestivalfirestoThorandWodenhadfollowedonthesamegroundanddulyhadtheirday.Indeed,itisprettywellknownthatsuchblazesasthistheheathmenwerenowenjoyingareratherthelinealdescendantsfromjumbledDruidicalritesandSaxonceremoniesthantheinventionofpopularfeelingaboutGunpowderPlot.

           Moreovertolightafireistheinstinctiveandresistantactofmanwhen,atthewinteringress,thecurfewissoundedthroughoutNature.Itindicatesaspontaneous,Prometheanrebelliousnessagainstthatfiatthatthisrecurrentseasonshallbringfoultimes,colddarkness,miseryanddeath.Blackchaoscomes,andthefetteredgodsoftheearthsay,Lettherebelight.

           ThebrilliantlightsandsootyshadeswhichstruggledupontheskinandclothesofthepersonsstandingroundcausedtheirlineamentsandgeneralcontourstobedrawnwithDureresquevigouranddash.Yetthepermanentmoralexpressionofeachfaceitwasimpossibletodiscover,forasthenimbleflamestowered,nodded,andswoopedthroughthesurroundingair,theblotsofshadeandflakesoflightuponthecountenancesofthegroupchangedshapeandpositionendlessly.Allwasunstable;quiveringasleaves,evanescentaslightning.Shadowyeye-sockets,deepasthoseofadeath’shead,suddenlyturnedintopitsoflustre:alantern-jawwascavernous,thenitwasshining;wrinkleswereemphasizedtoravines,orobliteratedentirelybyachangedray.

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