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Rh forth strains and songs and melodies, dancing and vibrating in endless succession and overflowing profusion, like the passionate exuberance of a ceaseless fountain!

O deep and sweet darkness! the profound and mystic darkness whose servant I was!

Why did you come away with me from that room?

Because I knew he would follow us and take us back.

But no, he will not come—he has left us for good. Why should he not?