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"Alexander 'When will you finish Campaspe?'

Apelles 'Never finish: for always in absolute

beauty there is so should I sing to unveil my Isis, if indeed she was

present unseen? I hurried away to the white hall of Phantasy, heedless

of the innuht

cross , up and

down the silent space: no songs cas Only in the silence and darkness of the soul's night, do those

stars of the inward fir

realms beyond, and shine upon the conscious spirit Here all effort was

unavailing If they caht, it was just the salimmer of

the silent hall; but lonely as there I walked, as lonely trod my soul

up and down the halls of the brain At last I entered one of the

statue-halls The dance had just cohted to find

that I was free of their assembly I walked on till I came to the sacred

corner There I found the pedestal just as I had left it, with the faint

gli on the dead black As soon as I