And when the Maidens heard his music and saw his tall form advancing
through their great fields of ready quickened corn, they plucked ears
thereof, each of her kind, and with them filled their colored trays and
over all spread broidered mantles--broidered in all bright colors and
with the creature-signs of Summerland. From eldest to youngest they
sallied forth to meet and to welcome him, still in their great fields
of corn! Then he greeted them, each with the touch of his hands and the
breath of his flute, and bade them prepare to follow him erewhile to
the northland home of their deserted children.