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"Deep in my heart there's a sort of innate Slavic sadness whichresponded to the ht traveled with the melodyeffortlessly on and on The warhtened toinfinities of cold, deep-blue eressed

"Each harht wasborne farther and farther like a leaf in a tempest There were basechords which made my throat quiver, and tears burned underatby a sort of dream-vision, I half-consciously turned,beheld lucomet-tails

"An instinctive transient fright gripped ion into the calid darkness froer than e to retreat The azurebecareatwhite filaht

"A stupendous chorus of clear unhuman voices, as from diamond throats,emanated from these linked moons,

of which the hostly echo In tangible waves this greaterainst h toforce me away on its tides I know not whither

"Beneath rey sli of a sohtly on it, and crawling across it fros whose prehensile branches bore,instead of leaves, flexible lenses They left behind them red trailson the slime, and excrementory ribbons of thin blue vapor streaes Occasionally they paused to feed, focussingtheir lenses upon the gelatinous ground, which beca mouths of the serpentine rootsabsorbed thisrapidly under the ence, chemically affected by it

"And the treesclose together, thrusting their li their lenses into a series of co with a violent ardor Fro the lenses ruby liquid spurted, bursting withincandescence under the condensed ht

"Spent, drooping, the trees separated, and the radiant orgas fitfully as the trees movedaway indifferently

"Apparently these flickering radiances fed, for gradually they grew,dulling, beco roots,developing li like their parents They snailed onward outof sight, all of them

"Silently, a phosphorescent green river raced like a bolt of furcatelightning over the green wastes It was co insects A conscious river, altering itstortuous course at will, s erratically, then rejoining the general current This river'send drew into sight, flashed underred paths on the slime

"The moon's music assailed me; simultaneously I felt thoseainst the inexorable tide of the lunar h an interstice of thecirculatory web, into blue infinity And there it left ripples of it would lap me, but were too dissapated then to sweep mefarther

"I floated aies, less a body than aer nor thirst nor ill of any sort other thana dreadful sapping weariness

"There was no way of reckoning time, but after an eternity of lonelinessand self-boredolissando of mellow tintinabulations Atroop of small stars flashed towardin interweaving dance of enchant of crystal brooks Thejoyous, youthful essence of their song so charot myweariness and vocally ventured to imitate it

"At last they broke their circle and swept away, single-file, out ofsight, di with distance

"For awhile I hu, but with every repetition it lost soained a huer beautiful, and I wassilent Wearily the sluggish ages passedin the illimitable bluesolitudes