They were like seven moons set high in some caverned heaven.

Slowly their splendour increased, and with it the splendour of the seven beams streaming from them.
"I tore my gaze away and stared at the Pool.

It had grown milky, opalescent.

The rays gushing into it seemed to be filling it; it was alive with sparklings, scintillations, glimmerings.

And the luminescence I had seen rising from its depths was larger, nearer! "A swirl of mist floated up from its surface.