After he had spent some hours in the darkness, not without fearand trembling, he saw at a very short distance the glimmer of alight, and as he thought that a human habitation might be there,where he would be better off than on the branches of a tree, hegot carefully down and went towards the light.
The church bells were silent; the last tone floated away with the last red glimmer on the evening clouds.
" The long wicks of the altar lights glimmer red; but there is a redder gleam upon the pavement, where the bishop lies with cloven skull, and his dead warriors around him, in the quiet of the holy Christmas night.
Only a faint glimmer of light struggled through the horn panes in the little window on the roof, while within sat the old clerk, generally on his bed, singing his evening hymn in a low voice; or he would be moving about in his booth till late in the night, busily employed in many things.
He wings his way in the glimmer of the Northern Lights over the plains of Lapland, and hops among the yellow flowers in the short Greenland summer.
