THE KING OF ELFLAND’S DAUGHTER
power to hold her with any spell, nor had she herself the power even to turn, even to look at her boy as she drifted away.
And at that moment a wind came out of the north-west, and entered the woods and bared the golden branches, and danced on over the downs, and led a company of scarlet and golden leaves, that had dreaded this day but danced now it had come; and away with a riot of dancing and glory of colour, high in the light of the sun that had set from the sight of the fields, went wind and leaves together. With them went Lirazel.
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