what the uncommunicating muteness of fishes?here the goddess reigns and revels.

The uncommunicating muteness of fishes.

You can feel the quietude, see the stillness; it is "tranquil and herd-likeas in the pasture'forty feeding like one;'" it is sadly serene, placidly mysterous, like the "uncommunicating muteness of fishes;" and you wonder how it is kept up.