A Shadowy Fear, Long Haunting the Horizon of Her Soul

8×10″ pen and colored pencil on paper
June 11, 2012

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Inspired by the following passage from George MacDonald’s “Story of the Sea Shore”:

Months passed; he came not; and a shadowy fear,
Long haunting the horizon of her soul,
In deeper gloom and sharper form drew nigh;
And growing in bulk, possessed her atmosphere,
And lost all shape, because it filled all space,
And reached beyond the bounds of consciousness…