Where did you get him ?" Briefly I told him.
Then a silence fell upon us.

Suddenly the sun dipped down behind the flank of the stone giant guarding the valley's western gate; the whole vale swiftly darkened--a flood of crystal-clear shadows poured within it.

It was the prelude to that miracle of unearthly beauty seen nowhere else on this earth--the sunset of Tibet.
We turned expectant eyes to the west.

A little, cool breeze raced down from the watching steeps like a messenger, whispered to the nodding poppies, sighed and was gone.

The poppies were still.