PALOMIDES.
It is as if the sky had flowed hither….
ALLADINE.
It is full of moveless flowers….
PALOMIDES.
It is full of moveless flowers and strange…. Hast thou seen the largest there that blooms beneath the others? It seems to live a cadenced life…. And the water … Is it water?… It seems more beautiful, more pure, more blue than all the water in the world….
ALLADINE.
I dare not look upon it longer….
PALOMIDES.
See how about us all is luminous…. The light dares hesitate no longer, and we kiss each other in the vestibules of heaven…. Seest thou the precious stones that gem the vaults, drunken with life, that seem to smile on us; and the thousands and thousands of glowing blue roses that climb along the pillars?…