Mardi Volume 1 Chapter 64 - Yillah a Phantom

In which the narrator dwells tenderly on the brief and enchanted days spent with Yillah in a sylvan islet, feeling her presence as a bewitching and almost otherworldly spell that gradually fades into a poignant absence. Bereft and lost, he succumbs to a restless sorrow, stirred by memories and the silent yearning for the vanished maiden, before resolving to seek her beyond the bounds of their fleeting paradise.