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is gone, the whisper of little feet that cannot be seen, the piercing sweet music from very far away, that fills the heart with gladness and yet with a strange pain—the ache of the Weltschmerz—the echo of the pipes of Pan.

". . . . Oftenest in the dark woods I hear him sing
"Dim, half-remembered things, where the old mosses cling
"To the old trees, and the faint wandering eddies bring
"The phantom echoes of a phantom spring."—Fiona Macleod.