Sonnet XXXII gallery Mascarade Ball

The Ball room is full with couples dancing. With a mask on his face, the elegant Prince approaches the Princess while fireworks explode outside the castle.

Ballroom Invitation Fireworks

The last beautiful dance of Prince Endymion and his Princess Serenity. Full with grace and love, they dance. However, they are not happy, since Endymion has discovered a conspiracy against the Moonkingdom.
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Sonnet XXXII

The first time that the sun rose on thine oath
To love me, I looked forward to the moon
To slacken all those bonds which seemed too soon
And quickly tied to make a lasting troth.
Quick-loving hearts, I thought, may quickly loathe;
And, looking on myself, I seemed not one
For such man's love! -- more like an out-of-tune
Worn viol, a good singer would be wroth
To spoil his song with, and which, snatched in haste,
Is laid down at the first ill-sounding note.
I did not wrong myself so, but I placed
A wrong on thee. For perfect strains may float
'Neath master-hands, from instruments defaced
And great souls, at one stroke, may do and dote.

Elizabeth Barret-Browning

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