Father Tom of Connemara (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book Father Tom of Connemara (Classic Reprint) written by Elizabeth O'Reilly Neville and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-02 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Father Tom of Connemara Connemara lies on the uttermost verge of the most western island of Europe, and is the last spot on which the sun rests before he is lost to the eyes Of men. The great luminary lingers as if loth to part with this last and fairest love of his, and waits to paint with crim son and gold the mountains and glens and bays and lakes before he sinks slowly into his ocean bed. And that bed! Who can describe it? Was ever couch so well prepared to receive a royal visitor? Its covering is, first, crimson and gold, caught up with diamonds, and then crimson and purple and gold and diamonds again, sparkling and glinting and changing with every restless movement of the royal guest until sleep finally overtakes him, and the moon comes sailing along ready to keep guard over his slumbers. The moon is an artist, too, but her brushes are dipped in silver, and she uses them with more sparing hand. Under her touch, the mountains and glens and lakes and bays take on an unearthly beauty. Connemara is the same, yet not the same; under the sun's triumphant color ing one glories in her physical loveliness, but the moon has shown us that she has a soul, and we can hear her heart-beats. Ah, she is telling her story now to even the most unimaginative - the story of her youth and her triumphs, of her loves and her losses, and our hearts go out to her in a great tenderness. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.