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The way thither led across fields of waving green corn, the point where the path diverged from the high-road being marked by a quaint mediaeval shrine, one of the many shrines which, sown broadcast over the Tyrol, are intended to act as heavenly milestones to earth-weary pilgrims.
A perfect rest when the work is done, A gentle sleep for earth-weary eyes, And the soul ascends to the azure skies. We in the earth life went on as best we could.
Coat-sleeves began to do duty across moist eyes; seeing we all being simple Basins winged white forms in the still air outside the battered schoolhouse, bearing worn, earth-weary forms away "Gathered with the lost in Paradise." It was not so hard to speak now.
Kullak does not find in it aught of the fantastic. The languid, earth-weary voice of the opening and the churchly refrain of the chorale, is not this fantastic contrast! This nocturne contains in solution all that Chopin developed later in a nocturne of the same key. But I think the first stronger its lines are simpler, more primitive, its coloring less complicated, yet quite as rich and gloomy.
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