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6control their mules at timesRestive houses [indecipherable] till passing bodies bumpWheels almost lockMen lose their placesOfficers ride up and down sometimes on the footways. Each column loses its pace wrinkles up and becomes all halts and starts.All this for a little while then a melting seems to take place as though the two columns of shadows become one with a strange double movement like opposite flowing rivers joined and still maintaining their courses.For uttered curses and shouts and commands now die awayEach dragon and the many weird members of each now understandsEach is a counterpart of eachHoof clomps echoe hoof clompChain clink echoes chain clinkThe tread of feet echoe the tread of feetAll sounds are doubled
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