| Back | Provided with a case of pencils, and some sheets of paper, I used to take a seat apart from them, near the window, and busy myself in sketching fancy vignettes, representing any scene that happened momentarily to shape itself in the ever-shifting kaleidoscope of imagination: a glimpse of sea between two rocks; the rising moon, and a ship crossing its disk; a group of reeds and water-flags, and a naiad's head, crowned with lotus- flowers, rising out of them; an elf sitting in a hedge-sparrow's nest, under a wreath of hawthorn-bloom. |
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| Front | Con mi caja de lápices y unas hojas de papel, me sentaba aparte de ellas, junto a la ventana, y me divertía en hacer los dibujos que se me ocurrían, las escenas que desfilaban por el quimérico calidoscopio de mi imaginación. Un trozo de mar entre las rocas, la luna elevándose sobre el mar y un navío cruzando ante su disco, la cabeza de una náyade coronada de flores de loto surgiendo entre olas, un enano sentado en un nido... |
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