The Golden Bough共40.8万字精彩大结局_全本免费阅读_Sir James George Frazer

of her

worshippers

in the

sacred

grove. The

temple of

the sylvan

goddess,

indeed,

has

vanished

and the

King of

the Wood

no longer

stands

sentinel

over the

Golden

Bough. But

Nemi's

woods are

still

green, and

as the

sunset

fades

above them

in the

west,

there

comes to

us, borne

on the

swell of

the wind,

the sound

of the

church

bells of

Aricia

ringing

the

Angelus.

Ave Maria!

Sweet and

solemn

they chime

out from

the