The Seeds of Enchantment Being Some Attempt to Narrate the Curious Discoveries
The book The Seeds of Enchantment Being Some Attempt to Narrate the Curious Discoveries was written by author Frankau, Gilbert, 1884-1952 Here you can read free online of The Seeds of Enchantment Being Some Attempt to Narrate the Curious Discoveries book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Seeds of Enchantment Being Some Attempt to Narrate the Curious Discoveries a good or bad book?
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It all came back to him in that hour of repose. He saw again the building of Bu-ro, the sack of Angkor Wat, the battles with Ava and Ayuthia, the last defence of Carajan. They were dead, every one of them, those bulls who had trumpeted with him at Angkor, those cows and calves he had led back from Carajan! Soon his own time would come upon him. The elephant's red eyes, sole insignificant features in the white landscape of his body, blinked about Great Sta- dium; visioning long-dead companies wh...eel and break across that red-sanded oblong of Fighting-ground, long-dead crowds cheering from the yellow limestone benches that upslanted tier on tier either side of it long-dead Emperors and bow- men in the shadowed balconies of the propylons. Nak had seen so many bowmen, so many Emperors he could have crushed with one foot, play out their little hour in that Stadium. He had never bothered to crush them. Yet they were dead even as the bulls who had trumpeted with him at Angkor. Only himself and the Stadium re- mained.
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