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Rh the beauty of the night, she ran lightly over to the spot where she often had a view of the sea. And she beheld it with the full moon reflected in ita globe of soft silver, shimmering and quivering in the unstill waters. This time it was too much for Eepersip. She could stand it no longerher heart gave way. She decided that the next morning she would satisfy her longing.

And so, just after dawn, she left her beautiful home in the field and journeyed toward the ocean. She went to the edge of the meadow with a herd of deer daintily tripping after her. She turned and cried: "Good-bye, O deer! for probably I shall never see you again." She kissed the ground of the meadow, and she wept to think that she was leaving it; but she knew that her love for the sea had become greater than her love for the meadow. And then she went awaysadly, yet happy at the prospect of a new and beautiful life by the foaming, churning rocks and the white-capped waves.