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They were both absorbed into a profound silence, into a deep,

fluid underwater energy that gave the intertwined in the flux of music

Shadowy couples passed and repassed before the fire, the dancing

feet danced silently by into the darkness It was a vision of

the depths of the underworld, under the great flood

There was a wonderful rocking of the darkness, slowly, a

great, sloinging of the whole night, with the

lightly on the surface,

on the surface of the dance, but underneath only one great flood

heaving slowly backwards to the verge of oblivion, slowly

forward to the other verge, the heart sweeping along each tiuish as the limit was reached, and the

moveed heavily on, Ursula are of so at her

Soht into her, not

upon her, but right at her Out of the great distance, and yet

i watch was kept upon her

And she danced on and on with Skrebensky, while the great, white

watching continued, balancing all in its revelation

"The moon has risen," said Anton, as the music ceased, and

they found themselves suddenly stranded, like bits of jetsa at her

over the hill And her breast opened to it, she was cleaved like

a transparent jewel to its light She stood filled with the full