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Rh Of these poetical sublimities, a translation at once literal and metrical, would we think, damp the spirit of a Coleridge.

It is coffee, but you will excuse the poetical license. The music married to this "immortal verse," I have learned by ear, and shall send you. In the "enanos" (the dwarfs) the dancer makes himself little, every time the chorus is sung.