Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde: The Young King and The Remarkable Rocket
HE MISSED INDEED AT TIMES THE FINE FREEDOM OF HIS FOREST LIFE M AND WAS ALWAYS APT TO CHAFE AT Io THE TEDious CouRT CEREMONIES THAT OCCUPIED SO MUCH OF EACH DAY AND AS SOON AS HE COULD ESCAPE FROM THE COUNCIL BOARD OR AUDIENCE CHAMBER HE WOULD RUN DOWN THE GREAT STAIRCASE AND WANDER FROM ROOM TO ROOM LIKE ONE WHO ITH WASSEEKING IN BEAUTY AN ANODYNE FROM PAIN UPON THESE JOuRNEYS OF DISCOVERY AS HE CALLED THEM HE WOULD SOMETIMES BE ACCOMPANIED BY THE FAIR HAIRED COURT PAGES WITH THEIR FLOATING MANTLES AND FLUTTERING RIBANDS BuT MORE OFTEN HE wouLD BE ALONE FEELING THROUGH A CERTAIN THAT THE SECRETS OF ART ARE QuICK INSTINCT WHICH WAS AL BEST LEARNED IN SECRET MOST A DIVINATION AND THAT BEAUTY LIKE WISDOM Loves THE LONELY
MANY Curious STORIES WERE RELATED ABOUT HIM AT THIS TIME IT WAS SAID THAT A STOUT BURGOMASTER WHO HAD COME TO DELIVER A FLORID ORATORICAL ADDRESS ON BEHALF OF THE CITIZENS OF THE TOWN HAD CAUGHT SIGHT OF HIM KNEELING IN RE AL ADORATION BEFORE A GREAT PICTURE THAT HAD JUST BEEN BROUGHT FROM VENICE AND THAT SEEMED TO HERALD THE WORSHIP OF SOME NEW GOps ON ANOTHER OCCASION HE HAD BEEN MIS HE HAD BEEN SEEN SO THE SED FOR SEVERAL HOURS AND HAD BEEN TALERAN PRESSING HIS DISCOVERED IN A LITTLE CHAMBER OF WARM LIPs TO THE MARBLE THE PALACE GAZING AS ONE IN A TRANCE BROW OF AN ANTIQUE STA AT A GREEK GEM CAkVED WITH THE TuE DISCOVERED IN THE FIGURE OF ADONIs BED OF THE RIVER A WHOLE NIGHT IN NOTING THE EFFECT OF THE MOONLIGHT ON A SILVER IMAGE OF ENDYMION WS IN HIS EAGERNESS TO PRO CuRE RARE AND COSTLY MATERIALS HE SENT AWAY MANY MERCHANTS SOME TO TRAFFIC FOR SOME TO EGYPT TO LOOK FOR AND OTHERS TO INDIA TO AMBER WITH THE ROUGH THAT Curious GREEN TUR SOME TO PERSIA FOR BY GAZE AND STAINED FISHERFOLK OF THE QUOISE WHICH IS FOUND ONLY SILKEN CARPETS AND IVORY MOONSTONES AND NORTH SEAS IN THE TOMBS OF KINGS AND PAINTED POTTERY BRACELETS OF JADE SAN IS SAID TO POSSESS MAGICAL DALWOOD AND BLUE EN PROPERTIES AMEL AND SHAWLS OF FINE WOOL IT
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AFTER SOME TIMEC HE ROSE FROM HIS SEAT AND LEANING AGAINST THE CARVED PENTHOUSE OF THE CHIMNEY LOOKED ROUND AT THE DIMLy ROOM a THE WALLS WERE HUNG WITH RICH TAPESTRIES REP RESENTING THE TRIUMPH OF BEAUTY PALE POPPIES WERE BROIDERED ON THE SILK COVERLET OF THE BED AS THOUGH THEY HAD FALLEN FROM THE TIRED HANDS OF SLEEP AND TALL REEDS OF FLuTED IVORY FROM WHICH GREAT TuFTS OF Os BARE UP THE VELVET CANOP TRICH PLUMES SPRANG LIKE WHITE FOAM TO THE PALLID SILVER OF THE FRETTED CEILING WVIIT WINNY LAUGHING NARCISsus IN GREEN BRONZE HELD A POLISHED MIRROR ABOVE ITS ouTSIDE HE COULD SEE THE HUGE DOME OF THE CATHEDRAL LOOMING LIKE A BUBBLEU OVER THE SHADOWY Houses
