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Move silently, friends, she loved this bower ofjessamines; we will surprise her here, and be the first to say goodmorning to the bride. ' With drooping heads his guests follow his steps as he glides along underthe sad firs and stately pines. Pathways stretch before them, leadinginto forest depths and over mossy banks, or climbing hillsides ladenwith vines. The old man often calls his daughter loudly by her name; thelaughing echoes answer mockingly; the followers burst into tears. Striking his f...orehead suddenly and violently with his hands, he cries: 'The dream! the nightmare! Why should it look to me so like truth? Whenwill the _true_ sun rise upon me?' Then he rushes to a sturdy pine, embraces its rough trunk with both his arms, strikes his head againstit: 'Awake me, thou hard bark--awake me from this dreadful dream!'Turning back, he seizes one of the nearest of his followers by thethroat, crying: 'Wrestle with thy lord, thou phantom of a servant, andwake him from his dream accursed!' The frightened servant slips away and flees.
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