midday
I heard a sound of tambourine and music . Annoyed at being thus disturbed in my revery , I glanced into the Square . What I beheld , others saw beside myself , and yet it was not a spectacle made for human eyes . There , in the middle of the pavement , -- it was midday , the sun was shining brightly , -- a creature was dancing . A creature so beautiful that God would have preferred her to the Virgin and have chosen her for his mother and have wished to be born of her if she had been in existence when he was made man ! Her eyes were black and splendid ; in the midst of her black locks , some hairs through which the sun shone glistened like threads of gold . Her feet disappeared in their movements like the spokes of a rapidly turning wheel .