The Basket
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The inkstand is full of ink, and the paper lies white and unspotted,in the round of light thrown by a candle. Puffs of darkness sweep intothe corners, and keep rolling through the room behind his chair. The airis silver and pearl, for the night is liquid with moonlight. See how the roof glitters, like ice! Over there, a slice of yellow cuts into the silver-blue, and beside it standtwo geraniums, purple because the light is silver-blue, to-night. See! She is coming, the young woman with the bright hair.She swings a basket as she walks, which she places on the sill,between the geranium stalks. He laughs, and crumples his paperas he leans forward to look. "The Basket Filled with Moonlight",what a title for a book!
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