Description

Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in good condition. Some tanning and marking due to age. No notes or highlighting. Best copy of this book I have seen. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> For she will draw him in her net until he reaches her high stage still painted with the fruit and wet this bird will burst his brittle cage. He will cross the broken bars and fly between the golden scales his waving plumes will flash like stars and cool the Heavens with their sails. Now he rests upon the ledge preparing for this last short leap before his newest wings can fledge. She leaps and saves him from the deep she draws him from those crystal fields still smelling of sweet juice and foam he sinks with his last breath and yields her arm is strong to lift him home. And now to mask the noisy night to muffle words and mute the feet Figaro strikes the strings and bright the harp rings with its sudden beat: Count Almaviva stirs in sleep and wakes to look out through the dark he marks a bleating of the sheep and like the oars that push a bark (LL)