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Nullus enim locus sine genio est	A
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Servius	B
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La musique says Marmontel in those Contes	B
Moraux which in all our translations we have insisted upon	C
calling Moral Tales as if in mockery of their	D
spirit la musique est le seul des talens qui	E
jouisse de lui meme tous les autres veulent des	B
temoins He here confounds the pleasure derivable from	F
sweet sounds with the capacity for creating them No more	G
than any other talent is that for music susceptible	H
of complete enjoyment where there is no second party to	I
appreciate its exercise and it is only in common with other	J
talents that it produces effects which may be fully	E
enjoyed in solitude The idea which the raconteur has	B
either failed to entertain clearly or has sacrificed in its	B
expression to his national love of point is	B
doubtless the very tenable one that the higher order of	K
music is the most thoroughly estimated when we are	L
exclusively alone The proposition in this form will be	E
admitted at once by those who love the lyre for its own sake	M
and for its spiritual uses But there is one pleasure still	N
within the reach of fallen mortality and perhaps only one	O
which owes even more than does music to the accessory	E
sentiment of seclusion I mean the happiness experienced in	P
the contemplation of natural scenery In truth the man who	I
would behold aright the glory of God upon earth must in	P
solitude behold that glory To me at least the presence not	Q
of human life only but of life in any other form than that	R
of the green things which grow upon the soil and are	L
voiceless is a stain upon the landscape is at war with the	S
genius of the scene I love indeed to regard the dark	T
valleys and the gray rocks and the waters that silently	E
smile and the forests that sigh in uneasy slumbers and the	S
proud watchful mountains that look down upon all I	U
love to regard these as themselves but the colossal members	B
of one vast animate and sentient whole a whole whose	B
form that of the sphere is the most perfect and most	V
inclusive of all whose path is among associate planets	B
whose meek handmaiden is the moon whose mediate sovereign	O
is the sun whose life is eternity whose thought is that of	K
a god whose enjoyment is knowledge whose destinies are	L
lost in immensity whose cognizance of ourselves is akin	P
with our own cognizance of the animalculae which	W
infest the brain a being which we in consequence regard as	B
purely inanimate and material much in the same manner as	B
these animalculae must thus regard us	B
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Our telescopes and our mathematical investigations assure us	B
on every hand notwithstanding the cant of the more ignorant	X
of the priesthood that space and therefore that bulk is	B
an important consideration in the eyes of the Almighty The	S
cycles in which the stars move are those best adapted for	G
the evolution without collision of the greatest possible	H
number of bodies The forms of those bodies are accurately	E
such as within a given surface to include the greatest	Y
possible amount of matter while the surfaces themselves are	L
so disposed as to accommodate a denser population than could	Z
be accommodated on the same surfaces otherwise arranged Nor	G
is it any argument against bulk being an object with God	A2
that space itself is infinite for there may be an infinity	E
of matter to fill it and since we see clearly that the	S
endowment of matter with vitality is a principle	H
indeed as far as our judgments extend the leading	B2
principle in the operations of Deity it is scarcely logical	H
to imagine it confined to the regions of the minute where	D
we daily trace it and not extending to those of the august	Y
As we find cycle within cycle without end yet all revolving	B2
around one far distant centre which is the Godhead may we	E
not analogically suppose in the same manner life within	P
life the less within the greater and all within the Spirit	C2
Divine In short we are madly erring through self esteem in	P
believing man in either his temporal or future destinies	B
to be of more moment in the universe than that vast clod of	K
the valley which he tills and contemns and to which he	E
denies a soul for no more profound reason than that he does	B
not behold it in operation	O
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These fancies and such as these have always given to my	U
meditations among the mountains and the forests by the	S
rivers and the ocean a tinge of what the every day world	D2
would not fail to term the fantastic My wanderings amid	E2
such scenes have been many and far searching and often	O
solitary and the interest with which I have strayed through	I
many a dim deep valley or gazed into the reflected heaven	O
of many a bright lake has been an interest greatly deepened	F2
by the thought that I have strayed and gazed alone	G2
What flippant Frenchman was it who said in allusion to the	S
well known work of Zimmermann that la solitude est une	G2
belle chose mais il faut quelqu'un pour vous dire que la	H2
solitude est une belle chose The epigram cannot be	E
gainsaid but the necessity is a thing that does not exist	I2
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It was during one of my lonely journeyings amid a far	L
distant region of mountain locked within mountain and sad	J2
rivers and melancholy tarns writhing or sleeping within all	K2
that I chanced upon a certain rivulet and island I came	L2
upon them suddenly in the leafy June and threw myself upon	G2
the turf beneath the branches of an unknown odorous shrub	M2
that I might doze as I contemplated the scene I felt that	R
thus only should I look upon it such was the character of	K
phantasm which it wore	G
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On all sides save to the west where the sun was about	N2
sinking arose the verdant walls of the forest The little	H
river which turned sharply in its course and was thus	B
immediately lost to sight seemed to have no exit from its	B
prison but to be absorbed by the deep green foliage of the	S
trees to the east while in the opposite quarter so it	O2
appeared to me as I lay at length and glanced upward there	D
poured down noiselessly and continuously into the valley a	S
rich golden and crimson waterfall from the sunset fountains	B
of the sky	U
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About midway in the short vista which my dreamy vision took	P2
in one small circular island profusely verdured reposed	O2
upon the bosom of the stream	Q2
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So blended bank and shadow there That each seemed pendulous	B
in air	D
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so mirror like was the glassy water that it was scarcely	E
possible to say at what point upon the slope of the emerald	O2
turf its crystal dominion began My position enabled me to	O2
include in a single view both the eastern and western	G2
extremities of the islet and I observed a singularly marked	O2
difference in their aspects The latter was all one radiant	O2
harem of garden beauties It glowed and blushed beneath the	S
eye of the slant sunlight and fairly laughed with flowers	B
The grass was short springy sweet scented and Asphodel	E
interspersed The trees were lithe mirthful erect bright	O2
slender and graceful of eastern figure and foliage with	R2
bark smooth glossy and parti colored There seemed a deep	S2
sense of life and joy about all and although no airs blew	E
from out the heavens yet everything had motion through the	S
gentle sweepings to and fro of innumerable butterflies that	O2
might have been mistaken for tulips with wings	B
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The other or eastern end of the isle was whelmed in the	S
blackest shade A sombre yet beautiful and peaceful gloom	T2
here pervaded all things The trees were dark in color and	O2
mournful in form and attitude wreathing themselves	B
into sad solemn and spectral shapes that conveyed ideas	B
of mortal sorrow and untimely death The grass wore the deep	S2
tint of the cypress and the heads of its blades hung	U2
droopingly and hither and thither among it were many small	E
unsightly hillocks low and narrow and not very long that	O2
had the aspect of graves but were not although over and	O2
all about them the rue and the rosemary clambered The	S
shades of the trees fell heavily upon the water and seemed	O2
to bury itself therein impregnating the depths of the	S
element with darkness I fancied that each shadow as the	S
sun descended lower and lower separated itself sullenly	E
from the trunk that gave it birth and thus became absorbed	O2
by the stream while other shadows issued momently from the	S
trees taking the place of their predecessors thus entombed	O2
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This idea having once seized upon my fancy greatly excited	O2
it and I lost myself forthwith in reverie If ever island	O2
were enchanted said I to myself this is it This is the	S
haunt of the few gentle Fays who remain from the wreck of	K
the race Are these green tombs theirs or do they	V2
yield up their sweet lives as mankind yield up their own In	G2
dying do they not rather waste away mournfully rendering	B2
unto God little by little their existence as these trees	B
render up shadow after shadow exhausting their substance	B
unto dissolution What the wasting tree is to the water that	O2
imbibes its shade growing thus blacker by what it preys	B
upon may not the life of the Fay be to the death which	W
engulfs it	O2
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As I thus mused with half shut eyes while the sun sank	W2
rapidly to rest and eddying currents careered round and	O2
round the island bearing upon their bosom large dazzling	B2
white flakes of the bark of the sycamore flakes which in	G2
their multiform positions upon the water a quick	X2
imagination might have converted into anything it pleased	O2
while I thus mused it appeared to me that the form of one	G2
of those very Fays about whom I had been pondering made its	B
way slowly into the darkness from out the light at the	S
western end of the island She stood erect in a singularly	E
fragile canoe and urged it with the mere phantom of an oar	G
While within the influence of the lingering sunbeams her	J
attitude seemed indicative of joy but sorrow deformed it as	B
she passed within the shade Slowly she glided along and at	O2
length rounded the islet and re entered the region of light	O2
The revolution which has just been made by the Fay	V2
continued I musingly is the cycle of the brief year of her	J
life She has floated through her winter and through her	J
summer She is a year nearer unto death for I did not fail	E
to see that as she came into the shade her shadow fell from	F
her and was swallowed up in the dark water making its	B
blackness more black	Y2
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And again the boat appeared and the Fay but about the	S
attitude of the latter there was more of care and	O2
uncertainty and less of elastic joy She floated again from	F
out the light and into the gloom which deepened momently	E
and again her shadow fell from her into the ebony water and	O2
became absorbed into its blackness And again and again she	E
made the circuit of the island while the sun rushed down to	E
his slumbers and at each issuing into the light there was	B
more sorrow about her person while it grew feebler and far	L
fainter and more indistinct and at each passage into the	S
gloom there fell from her a darker shade which became	L2
whelmed in a shadow more black But at length when the sun	G2
had utterly departed the Fay now the mere ghost of her	J
former self went disconsolately with her boat into the	S
region of the ebony flood and that she issued thence at all	E
I cannot say for darkness fell over all things and I	U
beheld her magical figure no more	G