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almost stationary and again waving, tripping, dancing, leaping in rapid measures 

 — the embroidered curtains moved by celestial airs in delicate folds of entrancing 

 grace, shedding or dropping a rain of heavenly light so beautiful that one could 

 but gaze in silence and wonder and admire the great bows which spanned the 

 heavens, having one end, it was felt, on the western mountains, and the other on 

 the Atlantic Ocean— these are for the denizens of a large city, like the dreams of 

 youth to the mature man, fond memories of vanished rapture. 



