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[224] like a powerful aeolian harp. I don't know whether Mendelssohn ever went to Fingal's Cave and heard the weird music, but the harp of the winds is in his overture. When I meet him in another world, I mean to ask him, for my own private satisfaction, whether he did n't know he put it there. This fascinating “Princess of Thule” brings back the overture and the dream I once had of seeing Mendelssohn at a concert in the other world.

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