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Speaker 1: Charn by Lord Duncany. Charn leaned forward and rode. All

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Speaker 1: things were won with his weariness. It was not with

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Speaker 1: him a matter of years or of centuries, but of

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Speaker 1: wide floods of time, and an old heaviness and a

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Speaker 1: pain in the arms that had become for him part

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Speaker 1: of the scheme that the gods had made, and was

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Speaker 1: of a peace with eternity. If the gods had even

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Speaker 1: sent him a contrary wind, it would have divided all

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Speaker 1: time in his memory into two equal slabs. So gray

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Speaker 1: were all things always where he was, that if any

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Speaker 1: radiance lingered a moment among the dead on the face

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Speaker 1: of such a queen, perhaps as Cleopatra, his eyes could

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Speaker 1: not have perceived it. It was strange that the dead

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Speaker 1: nowadays were coming in such numbers. They were coming in thousands,

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Speaker 1: where they used to come in fifties. It was neither

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Speaker 1: Haron's duty nor his wont to ponder in his gray

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Speaker 1: soul why these things might be harn leaned forward and rowed.

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Speaker 1: Then no one came for a while. It was not

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Speaker 1: usual for the gods to send no one down from

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Speaker 1: Earth for such a space, but the gods knew best.

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Speaker 1: Then one man came alone, and the little shade sat

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Speaker 1: shivering on a lonely bench, and the great boat pushed

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Speaker 1: off only one passenger. The gods knew best, and great

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Speaker 1: and weary Haron rowed on and on beside the little silent,

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Speaker 1: shivering ghost, and the sound of the river was like

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Speaker 1: a mighty scythe that grief in the beginning had sighed

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Speaker 1: among her sisters, and that could not die like the

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Speaker 1: echoes of human sorrow failing on earthly hills, but was

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Speaker 1: as old as time, and the pain in Harn's arms.

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Speaker 1: Then the boat from the slow gray river loomed up

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Speaker 1: to the coast of dis and the little silent Shade,

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Speaker 1: still shivering, stepped ashore, and Harn turned the boat to

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Speaker 1: go wearily back to the world. Then the little shadows spoke,

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Speaker 1: that had been a man I am the last. He said,

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Speaker 1: No one had ever made Harn smile before, no one

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Speaker 1: before had ever made him weep. End of Haron by

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Speaker 1: Lord Duncany