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 All of Satanella's sadness.

As he vanished in the blue heights

Satanella laughed out loudly

With a rippling, tumbling laughter

That from mount to mountain travelled,

Flew among the greyish ruins,

Then returned on wings of echo.

Thus at night across the snow drifts

Falls the bells' metallic tinkle,

Sound the sleigh-bells and the laughter.

Soon but ceased this jolly outburst

Passed into a song of sadness

From whose waves of melancholy

It shone forth like flash of moonlight,

Like a shiny golden fish-scale.

Now it vanished perhaps drowning

In that sea of sweet emotions

That encircles hearts of lovers

With a sweetly-mellow current—

Then it burst anew however,

Passed through many variations,

Then rejoiced, the daring dreamer

Having found a bough with flowers

Where to hang its wings of music,

Now had found a sturdy tower

Where to hang its bells of metal.

What approaches in the distance?