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Rh the Spirits, and the Echoes), and Asia, picturing it, concludes:—

The Echoes also which come after the Dream with the same summons, "Follow! Follow!" sing of "the noon-tide darkness deep" of the caverns, and "the woodland noontide dew"; and Asia and Panthea "follow ere the voices fade away." Yet at the end of scene ii., when they have thus passed into the forest, the second Faun says,

leaving us still in the forenoon.

Still Act II.: sc. iii., we are again in dawn, with the mist breaking,

The opening words, "Hither the sound has borne us," as well as the second chant of semichorus i. in the preceding scene, suggest a rapture-swift journey, although the last song of the Echoes in sc. i. enumerates immense tracts to be traversed; but, as we can scarcely be still in the dawning of the first day, we must, it appears, conceive that Asia and Panthea have been borne on the "plume-uplifting wind" and the billows of the "storm of sound,"