1 And we saw no breath to stir the folds of their white togas.
2 And then we saw the fold of a white tunic among the trees, and a gleam of gold.
3 Their hair was white and their faces were cracked as the clay of a dry river bed.
4 Only the iron tracks glowed through it, straight and white, calling us to follow.
5 The sleeping halls are white and clean and bare of all things save one hundred beds.
6 The sleeping halls were white and clean and bare of all things save one hundred beds.
7 The sleeping halls there were white and clean and bare of all things save one hundred beds.
8 Then today, at sunrise, we saw a white flame among the trees, high on a sheer peak before us.
9 Thus we learned their name, and we stood watching them go, till their white tunic was lost in the blue mist.
10 Women work in the fields, and their white tunics in the wind are like the wings of sea-gulls beating over the black soil.
11 Their head fell back, and their arms fell, as if their arms and their thin white neck were stricken suddenly with a great lassitude.
12 So we looked straight upon the Golden One, and we saw the shadows of their lashes on their white cheeks and the sparks of sun on their lips.
13 The skin of their arms is like a blue mist, but their shoulders are white and glowing, as if the light fell not from above, but rose from under their skin.
14 Their white tunic was torn, and the branches had cut the skin of their arms, but they spoke as if they had never taken notice of it, nor of weariness, nor of fear.
15 And there, before us, on a broad summit, with the mountains rising behind it, stood a house such as we had never seen, and the white fire came from the sun on the glass of its windows.
16 But then came the day when the sky turned white, as if the sun had burst and spread its flame in the air, and the fields lay still without breath, and the dust of the road was white in the glow.
17 Then the Golden One saw us, and they did not move, kneeling there, looking at us, and circles of light played upon their white tunic, from the sun on the water of the moat, and one sparkling drop fell from a finger of their hand held as frozen in the air.
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