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The "Idyl" of the Second Symphony, for instance, is dangerously close to the "Waldweben" in "Siegfried," although, to be sure, Scriabine's forest is rather more the perfumed and rose-lit woodland, Wagner's the fresh primeval wilderness.
Hot tears again surged to her eyes, as she would not let him see them, she turned quickly within, and ran as fast as she could up to her own rooms. Had she but turned back then, and looked out once more on to the rose-lit garden, she would have seen that which would have made her own sufferings seem but light and easy to bear a strong man, overwhelmed with his own passion and his own despair.
He left the crowded and rose-lit dining-room early, because he was not at ease amid its ceremoniousness of attire and of service, and went into the turkey-carpeted hall, whose porter suddenly sprang into propitiatory life on seeing him.
Soon the spell will be broken, soon our sufferings will end. Then did Finola glide from the shelter of the sedges across the rose-lit lake, and there by the shore of the Western Sea she chanted a song of hope. Calm crept into the hearts of the brothers as Finola sang, and, as she ended, once more the chime stole across the isle.
Thence she and her companions passed again into the leafy wilderness which clothes the mountain side up to a height of about 11,000 feet, cheered, as they climbed slowly upwards on their laborious path, by delightful vistas of "golden atmospheres and rose-lit summits," such as broke upon the dreams of him who created in his fancy the Garden of Armida; upward and onward through the dusky shade, which in itself may well impress a quick imagination.
But instantly they sought the mountain-tops again, all rose-lit in the opal glow of sunset. "You can go back, child," she said. "I must go on." "But it is getting so late," pleaded Dinah. "And look at the mist! If we keep on much longer, we may be lost." Isabel quickened her pace. "I am not afraid," she said, and her voice thrilled with a deep rapture.
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