THE DARK CHAMBER
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forth strains and songs and melodies, dancing and vibrating in endless succession and overflowing profusion, like the passionate exuberance of a ceaseless fountain!
Surangama
O deep and sweet darkness! the profound and mystic darkness whose servant I was!
Sudarshana
Why did you come away with me from that room?
Surangama
Because I knew he would follow us and take us back.
Sudarshana
But no, he will not come—he has left us for good. Why should he not?