noon
. words that I was compelled to write down as quickly as I heard them ... and I wrote on and on , obeying that symphonious and rhythmical dictation with a sense of growing ease and pleasure , ... when all suddenly a dense darkness overcame me , followed by a gradual dawning gray and golden light ... the words dispersed into fragmentary half-syllables ... the music died away , ... I started up amazed ... to find myself here ! ... here in this monastery of Lars , listening to the chanting of the Angelus ! '' He ceased , and looked wistfully out through the window at the white encircling rim of the opposite snow-mountains , now bathed in the full splendor of noon . Heliobas advanced and laid one hand kindly on his shoulder ... `` And do not forget , '' he said , `` that you have brought with you from the higher regions a Poem that will in all probability make your fame ! ` Fame ! fame !