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After this, I repaired everyto the same hall; where I sometimes

sat in the chair and dreamed deliciously, and sometimes walked up and

down over the black floor So one of these perah the whole epic of a tale; so fear of I knew not what I was astonished at

the beauty of h the place, or rather crept

undulating, like a serpent of sound, along the walls and roof of this

superbverses arose withinthe no

addition of music to satisfy the inward sense But, ever in the pauses

of these, when the singing

like the distant sound of multitudes of dancers, and felt as if it

was the unheardtheir rhyth I felt, too, that could I but see the

dance, I should, from the harmony of complicated movements, not of

the dancers in relation to each other merely, but of each dancer

individually in the