strauss-walzes

Updated: May 12, 2025

And rested, panting, arm in arm," and the Strauss-walzes sounded pleasantly in the ears of Flemming, who, though he never danced, yet, like Henry of Ofterdingen, in the Romance of Novalis, thought to music. The wheeling waltz set the wheels of his fancy going. And thus the moments glided on, and the footsteps of Time were not heard amid the sound of music and voices.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Hyperion