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I turned around and around S candles Wax crawled and dripped over the chased silver that held the floor The floor was as the sea, so transparent suddenly, so silken, and high above the painted clouds in illimitable sweetest blue It seemed a mist eling land and sea

Once again, I looked at the painting I ainst it, and stared upwards at the white castles atop the hills, at the delicate groomed trees, at the fierce subliish journey of my crystal-clear

gaze

"So much!" I whispered No words could describe the deep colors of brown and gold in the beard of the exotic us, or the shadows at play in the painted head of the white horse, or in the face of the balding race of the arch-necked camels or the crush of rich flowers beneath soundless feet

"I see it with all ofperfectly all aspects as the dome of my mind became this room itself, and the as there colored and painted by me "I see it without any omission I see it," I whispered

I felt my Master's arms around my chest I felt his kiss on my hair

"Can you see again the glassy city?" he asked

"I can ainst his chest I openedbefore me the very colors I wanted, and lass rise in ination, until its towers pierced the sky "It's there, do you see it?"

In a torrent of tureen and yellow and blue spires that sparkled and wavered in the Heavenly light "Do you see it?" I cried out

"No But you do," said h "

In the dim chamber, we dressed in the black morn

Nothing was difficult, nothing had its old weight and resistance It seeers up the doublet to have it buttoned

We hurried down the steps, which seeht

To cli, to anchor my feet over and over in the chinks of the stone, to poise on a tuft of fern and vine as I reached for the bars of aand finally pulled open the grate, it was nothing, and how easily I let the heavy reen water beloeet to see it sink, to see the water splash around the descending weight, to see the glimmer of the torches in the water

"I fall into it "