Du Cane, Florence, Du Cane, Ella · London : Adams & Charles Black · leaf 378
he grayness, to the west, the cone of Fuji flashesinto splendour. It, too, is pink; its shape is theshape of a lotus bud, and the long fissures thatplough the mountain-side are now but the delicategold veining of a petal. Slowly it seems to open.It is the chalice of a new day, and the pledge… … THE LOTUS 195 who gathered his guests together on a midsummerday and put wine in the lotus leaves and let hisguests drink it from the stems of the leaves. Atruly romantic feast. In Japan the leaves are used for dishes at theSouls Festival in July; the dead spirits whoreturn to this world from Hades…
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