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If you are not located in the United States, you'll have -to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. - -Title: Asneha, the legend of the opal - -Author: Carlo De Fornaro - -Illustrator: Carlo De Fornaro - -Release Date: June 28, 2020 [EBook #62512] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ASNEHA, THE LEGEND OF THE OPAL *** - - - - -Produced by Charlene Taylor and the Online Distributed -Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was -produced from images generously made available by The -Internet Archive/American Libraries.) - - - - - - - - - - - ASNEHA - THE - Legend of the Opal - - ILLUSTRATIONS AND TEXT BY - CARLO DE FORNARO - - PUBLISHED BY MARCUS & CO. - JEWELERS - 544 FIFTH AVENUE - NEW YORK - - Copyright, 1902, by - CARLO DE FORNARO - - - _J’aspire, volupté divine!_ - _Hymne profond, délicieux!_ - _Tous les sanglots de ta poitrine,_ - _Et crois que ton coeur s’illumine_ - _Des perles que versent tes yeux!_ - - —_C. Baudelaire._ - -[Illustration] - - - Utter a powerful song to Indra, which will be as sweet as - butter and honey. - - —Rig Veda. - -Once upon a time, in the land of Kasi, there lived a poor musician, who -was also a poet and a most imaginative storyteller. He had lost his flute -in a village brawl, and being too poor to buy a new instrument had to -content himself in relating wonderful legends concerning the gods, and -stirring tales about the jungle people. - -One morning, feeling the necessity of communing with his spirit in quiet -and solitude, he wandered into the jungle under a favorite cluster of -bamboos. - -[Illustration] - -His soaring imagination was checked in its flight by a song of so -extraordinary a tune, so novel and strange to his ears that he fancied -he had been carried up by unknown favor to Indra’s heaven. The heavenly -singer was only a small bird with feathers like old gold, two eyes green -as emeralds, and the beak and legs of the same color. - -And the Golden Bird spoke to him: “Asneha! thou hast acquired great merit -by thy devotion to matters spiritual, by thy kindness to animals and to -human beings. Therefore, if thou wilt cut a reed within these woods they -shall repeat my songs to thee. - -“But have a care, thou must remain pure and not suffer to be deluded by -the love of woman, and thou shalt conquer the world.” - -He cut a flute in haste and pressed his lips to it to utter a song from -it. And verily the music which flowed from its opening was divine and -golden beyond description. Sometimes it sang softly as the moonbeam plays -on a silent lake of emerald, dancing and trembling with so gentle a -rhythm that only the soul of a poet could hear its melody; at other times -it swelled its notes to the power of the roaring Maruts smiting against -the unmovable Himalayas, as the wrath of Kali with the shiver of the cold -snows from the eternal summits. Again, its melody dripped sweetly as the -whitest of honey with the scent of a thousand flowers, of innumerable -forms and shadings the most delicate. It wept, also, a song of despair -and misery, so sadly, so pitifully, that it caused the tears to surge as -readily as the Fountain of all the Sorrows. - -[Illustration] - -So he incised on his flute this motto: - - “Once upon a time the Golden Bird sang to me, - Now I shall sing a golden song to the gods.” - -He went from village to village, from city to city, playing with the -generosity of an inspired poet, followed by man, woman, child and beast -alike, whenever he put his flute to his lips. They offered him their -homes, their riches, their dearest possessions, but he scorned all, -accepting only a little rice with spices, partaking of shelter with the -humblest when the tempest-beaten jungle forbade his sleeping out of doors. - -[Illustration] - -Quickly his fame had spread, and reached the ears of the Maharajah, -who bade him appear at the palace, to vie with the court musicians, -who were the most famous in the land. The court musicians, in their -ignorance, eyed the half-naked poet with a defiant leer, as one by one -they began playing, while nearby sat the Maharajah with his daughter, the -fair Mahismati, and the courtiers around, all fairly laden with gems, -appearing as enormous glistening scarabei. - -They sang and drummed, they scratched their fiddles and twanged their -guitars, they played the harps and clanked the cymbals to the admiring -assemblage of noblemen, who wondered how this miserable, half-starved -vagabond dared to compete with his wretched little instrument. - -[Illustration] - -When the musicians had ended, Asneha got up, announcing the Song of Songs. - -It began imperceptibly, but as insinuatingly as the language of a couple -of loving eyes whispers to another loved pair; so indistinct to the ear -that it was as the incipient melody in the mind of the composer. - -Then it continued, soothing and muffled as the patter of small naked -feet dancing the nautch on the marble flooring; rattled speedily as an -incessant cascade of rubies, diamonds, sapphires, pearls and emeralds -on a basin of gold. Steadily it flowed, like a Song of Desire and -Voluptuousness, filling the hall with a scarlet inundation of light; -heavy and numbing as the exhalation of soporific flowers. - -But now it ascended to healthier altitudes like a Song of Victory and -Exultation, direct and concise, in a blast of crystal trumpets, higher, -slowly, in the manner of the eagle. - -[Illustration] - -It rang forth agitated and sonorous as a gong, yet farther, solitary, -inaccessible. - -Then as if it had grown in magnitude by the ascent, it roared like -a planet as it shoots into space to restore the equilibrium of the -Universe, and suddenly, unexpectedly, in the fashion of the shooting -star, it stopped short, carrying in its wake the exhausted assemblage of -listeners to the floor as a mass of inert flesh. - -One by one, as do the reeds after the violent gust of wind has blown -over, they raised themselves, but not quite so erect as before. The -musicians approached him humbly, and breaking their instruments, threw -them at his feet, salaaming and promising never to play again from that -day on. - -Then Rajah Nila spoke: “Oh Asneha! Thou art indeed a great musician, -and thou shalt be rewarded as befits a king; my riches, my kingdom, my -daughter, are thine for thy choosing!” - -“Oh, Rajah!” answered Asneha, “I am only a poor man and a musician by -divine grace, but I am not a beggar, and have no desire for thy kingly -gifts and thy fair daughter!” - -The astonished Nila replied: “Assuredly thou art richer than am I, for -thou art freed of all desires! But let me be a beggar for once, and -entreat thee for another song!” - - * * * * * - -[Illustration: PAVANA] - -One day Pavana, the messenger of the gods, appeared to Asneha mounted -on his white antelope, a flag in one hand, in the other an arrow, with -a command from Indra to present himself immediately to the gods. So he -mounted the antelope, and in less time than it takes to think it, he was -carried to the eastern spur of the great Mount Meru, which is Swargra, in -the City of Asmaravati, the heaven of Indra. All the gods had assembled -there. Above all towered the great and mighty Indra, the Ruler of the -gods and Lord of the Firmament, mounted on his elephant Airavata, at his -right his dog Surana, and at his left his wife Indrani. Farther to the -left was Surya, the god of the Sun, on his winged horse Tarkshya. Agni, -the god of Fire, on a blue ram, and Varuna, the god of Waters, on his -terrible Makara. - -[Illustration: VARUNA - -KUVERA] - -At Indra’s right was Yama, the god of Death, on a blue buffalo, with his -twin sisters, the Yamunis, at their feet, the Sarameyas, their faithful -watchdogs. - -On Yama’s right was Kuvera, the god of Wealth, with his sister Kuveri, in -their aerial car of jeweled lapis-lazuli. - -Then Soma, the god of the Moon, on a white antelope, and Mangala, the god -of War. - -Also the goddess of Love, Radha, and all the lesser gods in magnificent -array, in all their splendor, in all their beauty and power, watching -silently Asneha. - -[Illustration: AGNI] - -Indra patted Airavata, and then spoke: - -“Oh Asneha! Thou hast conquered the world with thy songs, and thou hast -boasted to conquer the gods too! Now make thy boast good, or thou shalt -go into the keeping of Yama!” - -Asneha looked around, a little dazed by this gathering of Immortals; he -then shook his long black hair, as if to conquer timidity, and then began -his Golden Song. - -Pure and exquisite as the breath of woman with teeth like pearls, as -fragrant as the rose of Cashmere, it sang, now jocund, now sad, as the -moods of love-sick Radha; plaintively yearning as an appeal to love in -the stillness of the starless night; joyous and eager as the meeting of -desirous lips; languishing as the woman’s heart fainting under the first -kiss of the loved; it redoubled powerful, passionate as the march of the -conquering male who has subdued. Abruptly it altered the rhythm as if -awakening in readiness for battle, with the clamor of an army lusting -for carnage, with the clank of swords, the discordant clash of shields, -armors and spears, the dull thud of shattered bones and skulls, vehement -imprecations, deep blasphemies, full of rancor, hatred and vengeance. - -[Illustration: YAMA] - -Then succeeded a silence, heavy, full of terrible signs, as of a silent -flapping of wings, of a roaming of untold shadows, blacker than the night. - -It repeated the death-song of the jackal and the hyena, with its -harassing, fiendish chorus, pursuing in a mad dance with strange rhythms, -the lively reel of the black scavengers on the silent and pale corpses. -Then it died out, purling and gurgling as life ebbs out of a tortured -body from a deep and crimson wound. - -Pity and compassion returned to the song, gently, caressingly, as if -nursing multiple wounds, infusing sympathy and life, like the wind, which -laden with coolness and fragrance, sweeps over an arid and desolate -valley. - -It broke into a chant, strong and overwhelming, and so irresistible that -it was as a strain of Perfect Joy; persevered tenfold, omnipotent, with -a note so true, so deep and so infinite that it was like a sip of the -Amrita, blissful and oblivious. - -All the gods encircled Asneha, instinctively, irresistibly, as the cobras -surround the snake-charmer when he plays to them his captivating melody. - -[Illustration] - -They stared at him fixedly as if to get the sound from its original -source, and when he had ended they stood one instant stock-still, dumb, -overflowing with admiration and ecstasy. Then they all pressed around -him, speaking and shouting confusedly like ordinary mortals. But a -hush fell over the assemblage as the great Indra slowly made his way -to Asneha, and for a while stood absorbed and pensive, looking at the -musician. - -He then spoke with his clear, sonorous voice: “Asneha! Verily thou hast -made thy daring boast good, therefore thou shalt become immortal too! - -“I cannot offer thee what is earthly, for thou canst acquire all earthly -things with thy song. But I have created a gem which comprises all the -harmonies, all the melodies of music in color. It is ever changing, ever -beautiful and imperishable as are your songs. Take it, and delight with -it the mortals!” - -To the kneeling Asneha he extended his palm, where scintillated, luminous -and irradiating as a perfect song, the Opal. - -[Illustration] - - - - - -End of Project Gutenberg's Asneha, the legend of the opal, by Carlo De Fornaro - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ASNEHA, THE LEGEND OF THE OPAL *** - -***** This file should be named 62512-0.txt or 62512-0.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/6/2/5/1/62512/ - -Produced by Charlene Taylor and the Online Distributed -Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was -produced from images generously made available by The -Internet Archive/American Libraries.) - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will -be renamed. - -Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright -law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, -so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United -States without permission and without paying copyright -royalties. 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Baudelaire.</i></div> -</div> -</div> - -<hr /> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_4" id="Page_4">[4]</a></span></p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> -<img src="images/illus1.jpg" width="400" height="450" alt="" /> -</div> - -<hr /> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[5]</a></span></p> - -<div class="blockquote"> - -<p>Utter a powerful song to Indra, which will -be as sweet as butter and honey.</p> - -<p class="right">—Rig Veda.</p> - -</div> - -<div> -<img class="dropcap" src="images/dropcap-o.jpg" width="200" height="200" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p class="dropcap">Once upon a time, in the -land of Kasi, there lived -a poor musician, who -was also a poet and a -most imaginative storyteller. -He had lost his -flute in a village brawl, -and being too poor to buy a new instrument had -to content himself in relating wonderful legends -concerning the gods, and stirring tales about the -jungle people.</p> - -<p>One morning, feeling the necessity of communing -with his spirit in quiet and solitude, he wandered -into the jungle under a favorite cluster of -bamboos.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[6]</a></span></p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> -<img class="page" src="images/illus2.jpg" width="400" height="700" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[7]</a></span></p> - -<p>His soaring imagination was checked in its flight -by a song of so extraordinary a tune, so novel and -strange to his ears that he fancied he had been -carried up by unknown favor to Indra’s heaven. -The heavenly singer was only a small bird with -feathers like old gold, two eyes green as emeralds, -and the beak and legs of the same color.</p> - -<p>And the Golden Bird spoke to him: “Asneha! -thou hast acquired great merit by thy devotion to -matters spiritual, by thy kindness to animals and -to human beings. Therefore, if thou wilt cut a -reed within these woods they shall repeat my songs -to thee.</p> - -<p>“But have a care, thou must remain pure and -not suffer to be deluded by the love of woman, -and thou shalt conquer the world.”</p> - -<p>He cut a flute in haste and pressed his lips to it -to utter a song from it. And verily the music -which flowed from its opening was divine and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[8]</a></span> -golden beyond description. Sometimes it sang -softly as the moonbeam plays on a silent lake of -emerald, dancing and trembling with so gentle a -rhythm that only the soul of a poet could hear its -melody; at other times it swelled its notes to the -power of the roaring Maruts smiting against the -unmovable Himalayas, as the wrath of Kali with -the shiver of the cold snows from the eternal -summits. Again, its melody dripped sweetly as -the whitest of honey with the scent of a thousand -flowers, of innumerable forms and shadings the -most delicate. It wept, also, a song of despair -and misery, so sadly, so pitifully, that it caused -the tears to surge as readily as the Fountain of -all the Sorrows.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> -<img src="images/illus3.jpg" width="400" height="450" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[9]</a></span></p> - -<p>So he incised on his flute this motto:</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="verse">“Once upon a time the Golden Bird sang to me,</div> -<div class="verse">Now I shall sing a golden song to the gods.”</div> -</div> -</div> - -<p>He went from village to village, from city to -city, playing with the generosity of an inspired<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[10]</a></span> -poet, followed by man, woman, child and beast -alike, whenever he put his flute to his lips. They -offered him their homes, their riches, their dearest -possessions, but he scorned all, accepting only a -little rice with spices, partaking of shelter with -the humblest when the tempest-beaten jungle forbade -his sleeping out of doors.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> -<img class="page" src="images/illus4.jpg" width="400" height="700" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[11]</a></span></p> - -<p>Quickly his fame had spread, and reached the -ears of the Maharajah, who bade him appear at -the palace, to vie with the court musicians, who -were the most famous in the land. The court -musicians, in their ignorance, eyed the half-naked -poet with a defiant leer, as one by one they began -playing, while nearby sat the Maharajah -with his daughter, the fair Mahismati, and the -courtiers around, all fairly laden with gems, appearing -as enormous glistening scarabei.</p> - -<p>They sang and drummed, they scratched their -fiddles and twanged their guitars, they played the -harps and clanked the cymbals to the admiring -assemblage of noblemen, who wondered how this<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[12]</a></span> -miserable, half-starved vagabond dared to compete -with his wretched little instrument.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> -<img class="page" src="images/illus5.jpg" width="400" height="700" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[13]</a></span></p> - -<p>When the musicians had ended, Asneha got up, -announcing the Song of Songs.</p> - -<p>It began imperceptibly, but as insinuatingly as -the language of a couple of loving eyes whispers -to another loved pair; so indistinct to the ear that -it was as the incipient melody in the mind of the -composer.</p> - -<p>Then it continued, soothing and muffled as the -patter of small naked feet dancing the nautch on -the marble flooring; rattled speedily as an incessant -cascade of rubies, diamonds, sapphires, pearls and -emeralds on a basin of gold. Steadily it flowed, like -a Song of Desire and Voluptuousness, filling the -hall with a scarlet inundation of light; heavy and -numbing as the exhalation of soporific flowers.</p> - -<p>But now it ascended to healthier altitudes like -a Song of Victory and Exultation, direct and -concise, in a blast of crystal trumpets, higher, -slowly, in the manner of the eagle.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[14]</a></span></p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> -<img class="page" src="images/illus6.jpg" width="400" height="700" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[15]</a></span></p> - -<p>It rang forth agitated and sonorous as a gong, -yet farther, solitary, inaccessible.</p> - -<p>Then as if it had grown in magnitude by the -ascent, it roared like a planet as it shoots into -space to restore the equilibrium of the Universe, -and suddenly, unexpectedly, in the fashion of the -shooting star, it stopped short, carrying in its wake -the exhausted assemblage of listeners to the floor -as a mass of inert flesh.</p> - -<p>One by one, as do the reeds after the violent -gust of wind has blown over, they raised themselves, -but not quite so erect as before. The musicians -approached him humbly, and breaking -their instruments, threw them at his feet, salaaming -and promising never to play again from that -day on.</p> - -<p>Then Rajah Nila spoke: “Oh Asneha! Thou -art indeed a great musician, and thou shalt be -rewarded as befits a king; my riches, my kingdom, -my daughter, are thine for thy choosing!”</p> - -<p>“Oh, Rajah!” answered Asneha, “I am only<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[16]</a></span> -a poor man and a musician by divine grace, but I -am not a beggar, and have no desire for thy kingly -gifts and thy fair daughter!”</p> - -<p>The astonished Nila replied: “Assuredly -thou art richer than am I, for thou art freed -of all desires! But let me be a beggar for once, -and entreat thee for another song!”</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> -<img class="page" src="images/illus7.jpg" width="400" height="700" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[17]</a></span></p> - -<p>One day Pavana, the messenger of the gods, appeared -to Asneha mounted on his white antelope, -a flag in one hand, in the other an arrow, with -a command from Indra to present himself immediately -to the gods. So he mounted the antelope, -and in less time than it takes to think it, he -was carried to the eastern spur of the great Mount -Meru, which is Swargra, in the City of Asmaravati, -the heaven of Indra. All the gods had -assembled there. Above all towered the great -and mighty Indra, the Ruler of the gods and Lord -of the Firmament, mounted on his elephant Airavata, -at his right his dog Surana, and at his left<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[18]</a></span> -his wife Indrani. Farther to the left was Surya, -the god of the Sun, on his winged horse Tarkshya. -Agni, the god of Fire, on a blue ram, -and Varuna, the god of Waters, on his terrible -Makara.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> -<img class="page" src="images/illus8.jpg" width="400" height="700" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[19]</a></span></p> - -<p>At Indra’s right was Yama, the god of Death, -on a blue buffalo, with his twin sisters, the Yamunis, -at their feet, the Sarameyas, their faithful -watchdogs.</p> - -<p>On Yama’s right was Kuvera, the god of -Wealth, with his sister Kuveri, in their aerial car -of jeweled lapis-lazuli.</p> - -<p>Then Soma, the god of the Moon, on a white -antelope, and Mangala, the god of War.</p> - -<p>Also the goddess of Love, Radha, and all the -lesser gods in magnificent array, in all their splendor, -in all their beauty and power, watching -silently Asneha.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[20]</a></span></p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> -<img class="page" src="images/illus9.jpg" width="400" height="700" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p>Indra patted Airavata, and then spoke:</p> - -<p>“Oh Asneha! Thou hast conquered the world -with thy songs, and thou hast boasted to conquer<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[21]</a></span> -the gods too! Now make thy boast good, or -thou shalt go into the keeping of Yama!”</p> - -<p>Asneha looked around, a little dazed by this -gathering of Immortals; he then shook his long -black hair, as if to conquer timidity, and then -began his Golden Song.</p> - -<p>Pure and exquisite as the breath of woman -with teeth like pearls, as fragrant as the rose of -Cashmere, it sang, now jocund, now sad, as the -moods of love-sick Radha; plaintively yearning -as an appeal to love in the stillness of the starless -night; joyous and eager as the meeting of desirous -lips; languishing as the woman’s heart fainting -under the first kiss of the loved; it redoubled -powerful, passionate as the march of the conquering -male who has subdued. Abruptly it altered -the rhythm as if awakening in readiness for battle, -with the clamor of an army lusting for carnage, -with the clank of swords, the discordant clash of -shields, armors and spears, the dull thud of shattered -bones and skulls, vehement imprecations, -deep blasphemies, full of rancor, hatred and vengeance.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[22]</a></span></p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> -<img class="page" src="images/illus10.jpg" width="400" height="700" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[23]</a></span></p> - -<p>Then succeeded a silence, heavy, full of terrible -signs, as of a silent flapping of wings, of a roaming -of untold shadows, blacker than the night.</p> - -<p>It repeated the death-song of the jackal and -the hyena, with its harassing, fiendish chorus, pursuing -in a mad dance with strange rhythms, the -lively reel of the black scavengers on the silent -and pale corpses. Then it died out, purling and -gurgling as life ebbs out of a tortured body from -a deep and crimson wound.</p> - -<p>Pity and compassion returned to the song, -gently, caressingly, as if nursing multiple -wounds, infusing sympathy and life, like the -wind, which laden with coolness and fragrance, -sweeps over an arid and desolate valley.</p> - -<p>It broke into a chant, strong and overwhelming, -and so irresistible that it was as a strain of -Perfect Joy; persevered tenfold, omnipotent, with -a note so true, so deep and so infinite that it<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[24]</a></span> -was like a sip of the Amrita, blissful and oblivious.</p> - -<p>All the gods encircled Asneha, instinctively, -irresistibly, as the cobras surround the snake-charmer -when he plays to them his captivating -melody.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> -<img class="page" src="images/illus11.jpg" width="400" height="700" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[25]</a></span></p> - -<p>They stared at him fixedly as if to get the -sound from its original source, and when he had -ended they stood one instant stock-still, dumb, -overflowing with admiration and ecstasy. Then -they all pressed around him, speaking and shouting -confusedly like ordinary mortals. But a hush -fell over the assemblage as the great Indra slowly -made his way to Asneha, and for a while stood -absorbed and pensive, looking at the musician.</p> - -<p>He then spoke with his clear, sonorous voice: -“Asneha! Verily thou hast made thy daring -boast good, therefore thou shalt become immortal -too!</p> - -<p>“I cannot offer thee what is earthly, for thou -canst acquire all earthly things with thy song.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">[26]</a></span> -But I have created a gem which comprises all the -harmonies, all the melodies of music in color. It -is ever changing, ever beautiful and imperishable -as are your songs. Take it, and delight with it -the mortals!”</p> - -<p>To the kneeling Asneha he extended his palm, -where scintillated, luminous and irradiating as a -perfect song, the Opal.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> -<img src="images/illus12.jpg" width="400" height="450" alt="" /> -</div> - -<hr /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 200px;"> -<img src="images/gilliss.jpg" width="200" height="215" alt="The Gilliss Press" /> -</div> - - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of Project Gutenberg's Asneha, the legend of the opal, by Carlo De Fornaro - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ASNEHA, THE LEGEND OF THE OPAL *** - -***** This file should be named 62512-h.htm or 62512-h.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/6/2/5/1/62512/ - -Produced by Charlene Taylor and the Online Distributed -Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was -produced from images generously made available by The -Internet Archive/American Libraries.) - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will -be renamed. - -Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright -law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, -so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United -States without permission and without paying copyright -royalties. 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