Yillah

Round and round, a gleaming form slow circled in the deepest eddies: -- white, and vaguely Yillah.

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But finding the wind ahead, and the current too strong for our paddlers, we were fain to forego our destination; Babbalanja observing, that since in Dominora we had not found Yillah, then in

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I composed it long, long since, when Yillah yet bowered in Odo.

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Him, Media accosted, making mention who we were, and on what errand we came: to seek out Yillah, and behold the isle.

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Now, at last, the hopeless search must be renounced: Yillah there was none: back must I hie to blue Serenia.

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Then said Babbalanja, "Aleema's sons raved not; 'tis true, then, Taji, that an evil deed gained you your Yillah: no wonder she is lost."

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"Ha, ha!" laughed Yoomy, "Labor laughs in this land; and claps his hands in the jubilee groves! methinks that Yillah will yet be found."

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But the same mysterious, evil-boding gaze was there, which long before had haunted me in Odo, ere Yillah fled.

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"My lord," said Babbalanja, "where'ere she hide, ne'er yet did Yillah lurk in this Porpheero; nor have we missed the maiden, noble Taji! in not touching at its shores."

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We traversed many of these southern vales; but as in Dominora, -- so, throughout Vivenza, North and South, -- Yillah harbored not.

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