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    The Last Generation A Story of the Future
    The Last Generation A Story of the Future
    The Last Generation A Story of the Future
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    The Last Generation A Story of the Future

    By James Elroy Flecker

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    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      The Last Generation A Story of the Future - James Elroy Flecker

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      Title: The Last Generation

      A Story of the Future

      Author: James Elroy Flecker

      Release Date: June 10, 2010 [EBook #32769]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE LAST GENERATION ***

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      THE LAST GENERATION

      BY THE SAME AUTHOR

      THE BRIDGE OF FIRE

      A BOOK OF POEMS CONTAINING THE

      BALLAD OF HAMPSTEAD HEATH

      AND THE TWIN SONNETS

      OF BATHROLAIRE

      Price 1s. net

      THE

      LAST GENERATION

      A STORY OF THE FUTURE

      BY

      JAMES ELROY FLECKER

      El hombre es el rey de la creación; vive (he lives) en la tierra y cree (he believes) en el cielo

      De Arteaga, Spanish Grammar

      THE NEW AGE PRESS

      140 FLEET STREET, LONDON

      1908

      Printed by Ballantyne, Hanson & Co.

      At the Ballantyne Press, Edinburgh

      TO

      FRANK SAVERY

      WHO TAUGHT, ENCOURAGED, AND

      REVEALED

      CONTENTS

      THE LAST GENERATION

      INTRODUCTION

      I had been awake for I know not how many hours that summer dawn while the sun came over the hills and coloured the beautiful roses in my mother's garden. As I lay drowsily gazing through the window, I thought I had never known a morning so sultry, and yet so pleasant. Outside not a leaf stirred; yet the air was fresh, and the madrigal notes of the birds came to me with a peculiar intensity and clearness. I listened intently to the curious sound of trilling, which drew nearer and nearer, until it seemed to merge into a whirring noise that filled the room and crowded at my ears. At first I could see nothing, and lay in deadly fear of the unknown; but soon I thought I saw rims and sparks of spectral fire floating through the pane. Then I heard some one say, I am the Wind. But the voice was so like that of an old friend whom one sees again after many years that my terror departed, and I asked simply why the Wind had come.

      I have come to you, he replied, because you are the first man I have discovered who is after my own heart. You whom others call dreamy and capricious, volatile and headstrong, you whom some accuse of weakness, others of unscrupulous abuse of power, you I know to be a true son of Æolus, a fit inhabitant for those caves of boisterous song.

      Are you the North Wind or the East Wind? said I. Or do you blow from the Atlantic? Yet if those be your feathers that shine upon the pane like yellow and purple threads, and if it be through your influence that the garden is so hot to-day, I should say you were the lazy South Wind, blowing from the countries that I love.

      I blow from no quarter of the Earth, replied the voice. "I am

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