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As if by one iher they rose, still hand in hand Detail of color and movement

vanished The connotation of the sexed creature, of the hu,

evaporated One instant, relaxed, they seealleons, all sails

set, that floated lazily, the sport of an aerial sea; another, supple

and sinuous, they seemed monstrous fish whose fins triumphantly clove

the air, monarchs of that aerial sea

A little of this and then cas furled

close like blades leaping back to scabbard; the flying-girls dropped

sheer in a dizzying fall Half-way to the ground, they stopped

sireat

feathery fans opened - and this tih, palpitated with color Froently, like dropping clouds

Nearer they caroup on the beach, nearer and nearer

Undoubtedly they had known all the time that an audience was there;

undoubtedly they had planned this; they looked down and smiled

And now the reen

sea-grasses that swathed them, their bodies just short of heroic size,

deep-boso-li like a man's; their hair that fell, a braid over each

ear, twined with brilliant flowers and green vines; their faces