Dom nad łąkami (House upon the meadows, autobiography, 1925)
They now mounted a small hill, and from its brow they looked down upon the shimmering lake and the extensive meadows which would house the rendezvous.
Wildflowers began to show themselves overnight, embellishing the carpeting of tangy new grass with clumps of blue and purple and yellow and pink and white, mixed and scattered by the roadside and upon the waving meadows.
And Alice sat by the open window in her room at home, looking out upon the meadows where the laborers were cutting the second crop of clover.
They joined one another and began to disport themselves upon the meadows.
Drawn up upon the meadows were the serried ranks of a monstrous Game, files of Sorcerers and Warlocks standing at either side, glowing with stored power.
Their conclave ended, their very existence was as wraithlike as the fog upon the meadows.
And at this juncture Esther Isbel came over to take another gaze out upon the meadows.
These were industrial plants, erected upon the barren meadows because such sites brought them close to transportation routes.
Already a torrent of burning matter and liquefied minerals fell from the side of the mountain upon the meadows as far as the side of the palisade.