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Neptune’s Crown. 119
crystal, and inlaid with many million gems of the
purest lustre, and the throne reflected everything in
its true light—the wicked appeared hideous in spite
of external beauty, the righteous shone like stars,
ever though their forms were ever so ugly.
The God of the Seas was clad in a flowing robe
of fish scales of gorgeous hue, wrought with such
superior skill and care that it had taken all the
dwellers of the seas more than two thousand years
to complete it. Over his shoulders hung a mantle,
the texture of which was interwoven with water
lilies, and it was so large and flowing that its
fringes floated for miles and miles on the surface
of the seas. He carried a sceptre in his hand, and
on his head a crown of scarlet-coloured corals, and
the God of the Seas was so grand and majestic
that, though the throne on which he was seated
rested upon the bottom of the ocean, his crown
reached far above the surface of the water, sur-
rounded by seaweed—as people called it; but it
was his long flowing hair floating up and down
amongst the billows.
Neptune sat in judgment, and so he had done
for many centuries, for the ways of the laws are
just as crooked and slow in his realm as upon
earth ; but now he had resolved to rest after his long,
incessant labours. He put aside his sceptre, and
took with both his hands the crown from his head
and placed it on his lap; but he was greatly
surprised to find that it had been wonderfully
transformed,
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