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56 All in their splendour approved; All; but, match'd with my beloved,
 * Darker, and denser, and duller.

Then she kissed him for that song, and sang:

Almeryl stretched his arm to the lattice, and drew it open, letting in the soft night wind, and the sound of the fountain and the bulbul and the beam of the stars, and versed to her in the languor of deep love:

So did these two lovers lute and sing in the stillness of the night, pouring into each other's ears melodies from the new sea of fancy and feeling that flowed through them.