id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 9207 Hawthorne, Nathaniel The Vision of the Fountain (From "Twice Told Tales") .txt text/plain 1915 90 80 THE VISION OF THE FOUNTAIN beautiful young woman, with a gown of filmy water-moss, a belt of fountain of withered leaves, and bits of slimy wood, and old acorns from bright sand, in the bright water, were like a treasury of diamonds. There was the water gushing, the sand sparkling, and the sunbeam Thus did the Vision leave me; and many a doleful day succeeded to the thought I, "or my heart will be as icy as the fountain, and the whole descended from my chamber to the sitting-room, to take leave of the old smoulder away, from morning till night, with a dull warmth and no flame. where the darkness had been, there was she,--the Vision of the Fountain! faint beauty in the fountain, was laughing and dimpling there now. the kindled wood,--and darkness snatched away that Daughter of the Light, had left home for a boarding-school, the morning after I arrived, and ./cache/9207.txt ./txt/9207.txt