The Night Land

A Love Tale

by

William Hope Hodgson

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2009

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Table of Contents

  1. Mirdath the Beautiful
  2. The Last Redoubt
  3. The Quiet Calling
  4. The Hushing of the Voice
  5. Into the Night Land
  6. The Way That I Did Go
  7. The Night Land
  8. Down the Mighty Slope
  9. The Dark Pyramid
  10. The Maid of the Olden Days
  11. The Homeward Way
  12. Downward of the Gorge
  13. Homeward by the Shore
  14. On the Island
  15. Past the House of Silence
  16. In the Country of Silence
  17. The Love Days

The Dreams that are only Dreams

“This to be Love, that your spirit to live in a natural holiness with the Beloved, and your bodies to be a sweet and natural delight that shall be never lost of a lovely mystery. . . . And shame to be unborn, and all things to go wholesome and proper, out of an utter greatness of understanding; and the Man to be an Hero and a Child before the Woman; and the Woman to be an Holy Light of the Spirit and an Utter Companion and in the same time a glad Possession unto the Man. . . . And this doth be Human Love. . . .”

“. . . for this to be the especial glory of Love, that it doth make unto all Sweetness and Greatness, and doth be a fire burning all Littleness; so that did all in this world to have met The Beloved, then did Wantonness be dead, and there to grow Gladness and Charity, dancing in the years.”

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