Well did the traveler know those garden lands that lie betwixt the wood of the Carnelian Sea, and blithely did he follow the singing river Outranks that marked his course. The sun rose higher over gentle slopes of grove and lawn, and heightened the colors of the thousand flowers that starred each knoll and dangle. A blessed haze lies upon all this region, wherein is held a little more of the sunlight than other places hold, and a little more of the summer's humming music of birds and bees; so that men walk through it as through a fairy place, and feel greater joy and wonder than they ever afterward remember.

The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath