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PSYCHE
CHAPTER I
Gigantically massive, with three hundred towers, on the summit of a rocky mountain, rose the king’s castle high into the clouds.
But the summit was broad, and flat as a plateau, and the castle spread far out, for miles and miles, with ramparts and walls and pinnacles.
And everywhere rose up the towers, lost in the clouds, and the castle was like a city, built upon a lofty rock of basalt.
Round the castle and far away lay the valleys of the kingdom, receding into the horizon, one after the other, and ever and ever.
Ever changing was the horizon: now pink, then silver; now blue, then golden; now grey, then white and misty, and gradually fading away, and never could the last be seen.
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