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Surely [?] And the sea held Who could resist the desire
But to w hear that message,
The voice entreated the sleepers to lie turn again & dream again, or
if they would not actually come again to the beach itself to
listen, at least to lift the blind & look out upon a night so
.magnificent that it could only must for ever mingle with
their happiest memories. the thought of happinessThe blue of night has been the
.104The background of so many scenes of love, the what lay spread
beneath, around,105 abov them to realise how they stood in
the to stand in the presence of thisa august God, whose robes were
flowing, whose flowed down & whose &whose he had his head was crowned, &
who h His hand was on his c sceptre & his eyes wer
a child might look into. But And if the sleeper still
faltered, & murmured said no; that it was vapour, this
splendour of his, & the dew was he had no more powerful than hethe dew106,
without complaint, orwithout argument, the voice would
resume its song: would Gently the waves would continue.
And everything – in the room, the cupboards & the chair,
would assume as if they too agreed, the a
[?]so freshly ordered, straightly ranged, seemed then to
lie under that enchantment, ordered in some more stately way107.
In the placedmore statelily placed, more gravely conscious.
.to conscious more gravely of some order in the world & purpose
which when the day broke they would fulfil.
Indeed the night voice might resume, as the leaves of
the passion flower tapped upon the window & the
curious shadowy half leaf half chair lay
slid in such apparently slid enlaced interlaced on the floor,
had, if he might support this merely continue to exist
as a background for the it was enough for him to lie thus
reign thus, magnificent, he was content with this: this
was enough. – to fold the sleepers round & be there,
should they choose to look through some chink in
the blind at what to be there.
          After all then, might one not say they not

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