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Sea-Blue and Blood-Red
Guns as Keys: and the Great Gate Swings
Hedge Island
The Bronze Horses
SEA-BLUE AND BLOOD-RED
THE MEDITERRANEAN
Blue as the tip of a salvia blossom, the inverted cup of the sky arches over the sea. Up to meet it, in a flat band of glaring colour, rises the water. The sky is unspecked by clouds, but the sea is flecked with pink and white light shadows, and silver scintillations snip-snap over the tops of the waves.
Something moves along the horizon. A puff of wind blowing up the edges of the silver-blue sky? Clouds! Clouds! Great thunderheads marching along the skyline! No, by Jove! The sun shining on sails! Vessels, hull down, with only their tiers of canvas showing. Beautiful ballooning thunderheads dipping one after another below the blue band of the sea.
NAPLES
In her great house with the red marble stairway, Lady Hamilton holds brilliant sway. F
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