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Zanoni

CHAPTER 4
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CHAPTER 4.XI.
They thus beguile the way Untill the blustring storme is overblowne, When weening to returne whence they did stray, They cannot finde that path which first was showne, But wander to and fro in waies unknowne.
-- Spenser's "Faerie Queene," book i.

canto i.st.

x.
Yes, Viola, thou art another being than when, by the threshold of thy Italian home, thou didst follow thy dim fancies through the Land of Shadow; or when thou didst vainly seek to give voice to an ideal beauty, on the boards where illusion counterfeits earth and heaven for an hour, till the weary sense, awaking, sees but the tinsel and the scene-shifter.

Thy spirit reposes in its own happiness.

Its wanderings have found a goal.


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