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THE DARK CHAMBER
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with the dust of flowers—there in the pleasure grove of silver light and mellow gloom.

Surangama

What can be seen in the hide-and-seek of darkness and light? There the wind is wild and restless, everything is dance and swift movement— will it not puzzle the eyes?

King

The Queen is curious to search me out.

Surangama

Curiosity will have to come back baffled and in tears!

Song


Ah, they would fly away, the restless vagrant eyes, the wild birds of the forest!