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All seemed delighted, though the elders more, / Of course, than were the children. -- Thus, before / Much interchange of mirthful compliment, / The story-teller said _his_ stories "went" / (Like a bad candle) _best_ when they went _out_, -- / And that some sprightly music, dashed about, / Would _wholly_ quench his "glimmer," and inspire / Far brighter lights.
And, answering this desire, / The flutist opened, in a rapturous strain / Of rippling notes -- a perfect April-rain / Of melody that drenched the senses through; -- / Then -- gentler -- gentler -- as the dusk sheds dew, / It fell, by velvety, staccatoed halts, / Swooning away in old "Von Weber's Waltz."